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Qoop, in collaboration with the designers of the space, implemented the facade frames at the Annie – Fine cooking restaurant in Pagkrati.

This involves filling the four openings that arise between the columns of the store, which consist of four retractable windows and two doors - the main entrance and the auxiliary one.

The design logic was based on the emphasis on the horizontality of the frames in contrast to the vertical structural elements. The facade was divided into 5 horizontal zones: the base, the opening sections, the fixed ones, a full zone at the height of the ledge and finally the fixed one-piece skylights.

In the retractable windows, instead of the usual solution with counterweights or electric motors, qoop used special springs with a cross-section of Φ20 that are integrated into the Π-section frame, which were ordered as pairs per window, calculating the total weight of the frame per case. In this way, large-section frames were avoided in which the counterweights are usually integrated as well as the visible motors and belts in the case of electric retraction.

For the implementation, 60/20/2mm cross-sections were used for the frames and fixed frames, 14/14/1.5mm for the glass slats which are 4+4mm triplex. For the doors, a cross-section of 80/40/2mm was used and they were completed with the use of return mechanisms and security locks. All opening elements were provided with brushes and sealing rubbers. The fixed blind sections were filled with 2mm sheet metal on the inner and outer sides with thermal insulation between them. All pieces were powder coated painted in RAL color.