National Museum for Contemporary Art (MAXXI) Rome, Italy
14 m high twisted walls in architectural concrete
With the construction of the new National Museum for Art and Architecture of the 21st Century in Rome, Zaha Hadid has once again designed a building that is in a class of its own. In order to fulfil the high architectural concrete requirements, the contractors decided to use SCC selfcompacting concrete. The structure is characterised by twisting reinforced concrete walls with a height of up to 14 metres.
For the straight wall sections, which were to be erected using fair-faced concrete, the flexible VARIO GT 24 girder wall formwork system was chosen. Large elements with an overall height of 14 metres were used for the external formwork. High load-bearing GT 24 lattice girders along with an off-set panel height extensions ensured that no deflections occurred during erecting and concrete pressures up to 150 kN/m² could safely be accommodated.
“PERI´s planned use of the formwork and on-site support ensured the best possible construction progress. With VARIO, we had the perfect wall formwork system at our disposal which enabled us to create both form and dimension for this extraordinary structure. Matched for use with self-compacting concrete, with fresh concrete pressures up to 150 kN/m², we could thus achieve very high quality surfaces.”
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