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Stavros Niarchos Center (Greece) Project information Stavros Niarchos Center (Greece) Project description mageba scope Highlights & facts The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural In order to ensure that the building struc- Center (SNFCC) in Athens is a multifunc- ture can withstand even a severe earth- mageba products: tional arts, education and recreation com- quake of the type Athens has known Type: RESTON®PENDULUM plex. It includes, within its 170,000 m2 for thousands of years, the buildings of Curved Surface Sliders park, new state-of-the-art facilities for the the National Library of Greece and the RESTON®SA shock National Library of Greece and the Greek Greek National Opera are built on 323 absorbers National Opera. RESTON®PENDULUM Curved Surface RESTON®SP elastic spring devices The buildings were designed by Renzo Pi- Sliders. The 323 seismic isolators allow ano, the internationally acclaimed archi- dynamic movements of +/- 350 mm and ROBO®CONTROL SHM tect who achieved worldwide fame in the carry loads of up to 70,000 kN per unit. Installation: 2013–2015 1970s with the Centre Georges Pompidou A solar collector roof canopy with an Structure: in Paris. With a budget of €566 million, the area of 10,000 m2 is also equipped with City: Athens SNFCC is one of the largest construction 60 RESTON®SA shock absorbers and 120 projects in recent Greek history. RESTON®SP spring devices to resist the Country: Greece strong wind forces arising. All these de- Completed: 2016 vices regulate the connections to the 30 Type: Cultural centre column heads that hold the roof, damping Owner: Stavros Niarchos all vertical vibrations. Foundation (to be donated to Greek state) A ROBO®CONTROL structural health moni- Contractor: Impregilo-TERNA JV toring (SHM) system is also linked to all Designer: PENELIS SA / EXPEDITION damper and spring devices. / OMETE The SNFCC is located 4.5 km south of the centre of The RESTON®PENDULUM isolators allow large Testing of one set of four RESTON®SA shock ab- Athens, Greece movements and carry loads of up to 70,000 kN sorbers, arranged as used in roof canopy Greece Turkey © 2014 Google 2021.07 CH-EN ©mageba mageba sa – Solistrasse 68 – 8180 Bulach – Switzerland – T +41 44 872 40 50 – [email protected].
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