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TRANSPARENT MEDIA FACADES
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TRANSPARENT MEDIA FACADES

Product catalog summary
Introduction
The document explores the development and application of metallic mesh systems in architecture, particularly focusing on transparent media facades like Illumesh® and Mediamesh®. These systems incorporate LED technology to create dynamic multimedia displays on building facades.
Specifications and Features
  • Metallic Mesh Systems: These systems have been developed over 20 years for international architecture projects, offering transparency, solar protection, and resistance to corrosion and weather.
  • LED Integration: Since 2006, high-performance LED profiles have been integrated into mesh systems to create transparent media facades that maintain architectural beauty even when not in use.
  • Transparency and Functionality: Mesh systems provide transparency levels between 55% and 65%, allowing for unrestricted internal room utilization and natural daylight use.
Technological Innovations
  • Mediamesh®: Utilizes stainless steel cable mesh with integrated LEDs, offering high-resolution image display adaptable to various architectural proportions. Newer versions include six LEDs per pixel for higher brightness.
  • Illumesh®: Features LED profiles that create a three-dimensional hologram effect, designed for night-time use with low-maintenance operation.
Advantages
  • Design suitable for both day and night use.
  • Robust weather resistance and low power consumption.
  • High degree of reliability and long service life.
  • Flexible LED layouts and high image resolution.
Applications and Case Studies
  • Projects include installations at the Milan Cathedral, Tripoli International Convention Center, and the New York Port Authority Bus Terminal.
  • Mediamesh® and Illumesh® can be combined for large facade medialisation, offering different resolutions for various content types.
Conclusion
The document emphasizes the versatility and innovative potential of metallic mesh systems in modern architecture, highlighting their aesthetic and functional benefits.
Overview: The document provides a comprehensive guide on planning and implementing media facades using Mediamesh® and Illumesh® systems, covering technical specifications, design considerations, and installation procedures.
Key Sections:
  • Specifications: The media facade system utilizes LED technology with a focus on image resolution and pixel grid, determined by the horizontal and vertical spacing between LEDs, affecting image clarity based on viewing distance.
  • Design and Engineering: The planning process involves engineering and system design, workshop drawings, and calculations for statics and wind loads, with mounting type selected based on these factors.
  • Technology: Mediamesh® employs RGB SMD LED technology to reduce pixel spacing, allowing for higher resolution images, adjusted based on viewing distance.
  • Installation Process: Media facades are pre-assembled with LED profiles and cabling, delivered to the installation site, hung, and tensioned using round profiles and eyebolts. The company provides installation, initial upload, commissioning, project documentation, and training services.
  • Project Support: GKD offers comprehensive support throughout the project, including consulting, planning, mesh production, assembly, and training, with a feasibility study and requirements analysis conducted to ensure the right construction and media components are selected.
  • Global Presence: The document lists contact information for GKD offices worldwide, including the USA, UK, China, France, Spain, South Africa, UAE, India, Chile, and Germany.
Conclusion: GKD provides a holistic partnership approach to media facade projects, ensuring successful implementation through detailed planning, advanced technology, and comprehensive support services.
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METAL MESH FOR ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN TRANSPARENT MEDIA FACADES ILLUMESH® + MEDIAMESH®

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02|03 TRANSPARENT MEDIA FACADES METALLIC MESH INNOVATIVELY STAGED. For over 20 years we have been systematically developing innovative metallic mesh systems and applications, and we maintain our leading role in pioneering international architecture projects with inspiring and leading technological architecture and design solutions. We already began focussing on multimedia applications for metallic mesh facades at the end of 1990s. Projects such as the Expomedia Light Cube in Saarbrücken, the Spielbudenplatz in Hamburg or Arctura in Östersund were all bathed in light by either projection onto...

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La Suisse Assurance, Lausanne, Schweiz. Architekt: ASS Architectes LSA. Gewebe: Sambesi (3) Magical effects. Mesh type: Illumesh® (3)

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04|05 TRANSPARENT MEDIA FACADES ARCHITECTURE SENSITIVELY MEDIALISED. Our transparent systems for medialisation of large facades have been specifically developed for long-term use in the field of architecture. They can be used individually or in combination, thereby opening up virtually limitless display possibilities. The exceptional web width and length of our architectural meshes also make it possible to medialise extremely large facades while achieving transparency levels of between 55 % and 65 %. The system is based on our Tigris stainless steel cable mesh. available budget. Data and power...

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Two different systems are available here. With Mediamesh®, carrier sleeves are woven into the mesh. Following the weaving process, we then install horizontal LED profiles which shine directly on anyone viewing the facade. For Illumesh®, we weave in special brackets in front of the web mesh and then use these to fit LED profiles which light up the mesh. The LED light, which is diffused as a large-area vertical reflection, is then indirectly visible. The ability to display 16 bits per colour allows a brilliant image with fascinating colour depth to be produced. The process for uploading graphics,...

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06|07 TRANSPARENT MEDIA FACADES MEDIAMESH ®: LEDs INTEGRATED INTO MESH. Mediamesh® medialises large facades during the day and at night without covering up the architecture. The stainless steel mesh carrier material is flexible in terms of dimensioning and LED layouts. Thanks to their total depth of just 25 mm, woven panels of up to 4 m in width and 20 m in length can be sculpted to accommodate any display format. When working with high resolution graphics, images, videos or live TV broadcasts, the system can demonstrate its incredible performance even in broad daylight. Mediamesh® covers the...

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TECHNICAL DETAILS _ Individual panel width: up to 4 m max. _ Mesh length: up to 20 m max. _ Depth: 2.5 cm _ Transparency: 55 % to 65 % _ LED profiles: pixel spacing freely selectable Horizontal from 42.5 mm, vertical from 40 mm _ IP 67 protection _ Weather-resistant _ Hurricane-resistant up to wind speeds of 145 mph (235 km/h) with corresponding design 5 LEDS PER PIXEL _ Pixel configuration: 2 red, 2 green, 1 blue _ Colour depth: 16 bits per colour _ Projection angle: horizontal 120°, vertical 60° _ Light intensity: up to 6,000 Nits _ Ambient temperature from -20°C to +70°C _ LEDs: 70,000 operating...

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08|09 TRANSPARENT MEDIA FACADES MEDIAMESH ®: SMDs OPTIMISED FOR OUTDOOR DEPLOYMENTS. With the further development of SMD technology, Mediamesh® offers the RGB SMD LED version for outdoor deployments. This design, developed specifically for GKD, boasts a particularly compact structure. All three base colours – red, green, blue – are housed in a single SMD chassis. The high packing density provides a tighter pixel grid. This in turn increases the light intensity, thereby optimising the viewing angle and colour brilliance. The new design also offers far greater flexibility in terms of pixel configuration,...

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TECHNICAL DETAILS _ Individual panel width: up to 4 m max. _ Mesh length: up to 20 m max. _ Depth: 2.5 cm _ Transparency: 55 % to 65 % _ LED profiles: pixel spacing freely selectable Horizontal from 30 mm, vertical from 40 mm _ IP 67 protection _ Weather-resistant _ Hurricane-resistant up to wind speeds of 145 mph (235 km/h) with corresponding design SMD LED OUTDOOR _ Pixel configuration: up to 3 SMDs = 3 red, 3 green, 3 blue _ Colour depth: 16 bits per colour _ Projection angle: horizontal 120°, vertical 120° _ Light intensity: up to 5,000 Nits _ Ambient temperature from –20°C to +70°C _ LEDs:...

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10|11 TRANSPARENT MEDIA FACADES MEDIAMESH ® INDOOR: A NEW INTERPRETATION OF VERSATILITY. Whether high-level trade fair stand and store design, parking/traffic structures or commercial construction projects, Mediamesh® Indoor caters to a broad range of applications. The medialised front side is used to present graphics, images or videos for product launches, image presentations, navigation or information systems. The textile structure of the back also shines with all decorative and functional advantages of metallic mesh room partitions, while the quick and easy installation serves to underline...

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Mediamesh® Indoor as a bifunctional room partition (12) TECHNICAL DETAIL Even when viewed close up, the tight arrangement of the pixels in the RGB SMD LEDs guarantees a high image reso- _ Individual panel width: up to 4 m max. lution and excellent viewing angle. A pixel configuration adapted specifically for interior spaces using just one RGB SMD LED chassis per pixel reduces the light intensity without compromising the colour brilliance or natural colour repro- _ LED profiles: pixel spacing freely selectable Horizontal from 30 mm, vertical from 40 mm _ IP 20 protection SMD-LED INDOOR _ Pixel...

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12|13 TRANSPARENT MEDIA FACADES ILLUMESH®: THREE-DIMENSIONAL LIGHTING. Illumesh® makes it easy to medialise and illuminate large facades. This transparent media facade system can demonstrate its full performance capabilities at night. Special brackets running horizontally carry LED profiles offset some 20 cm from the mesh. The light from these LEDs is then projected onto the mesh. The round stainless steel wires reflect the light asymmetrically. This creates a three-dimensional hologram effect, which makes the lighting appear to float in front of the facade. The display options available range...

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