#amstein

[foobeech]

Tyrell - Amburana ‐--‐-----‐-------------------------------------- Gekauft bei: @amstein_sa Unser Untappd Rating: 4.0/5.0 (sehr gut) ‐--‐-----‐-------------------------------------- Barley Wine ausgebaut auf #Amburana Holz. Prägnantes Karamellaroma das schön durch die Holznote getragen wird und zusätzlich zarte Vanilletöne einbringt. Im Abgang eine präsente Bittere. Sicherlich noch 3-4 Jahre lagerfähig vor seinem Peak. #amstein #barleywine #gerstenwein #tyrell #oakaged #bierstagram #bern #basel #züri #rheinfelden #craftbeer #craftnotcrap #swissbeer #beernerd #beersofinstagram #craftbier #beerwall #beerhaul #schweizerbier #birrasvizzera #bièresuisse (hier: Bern, Switzerland) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp0cKFON8cq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[angryjojofrog]

She's so yass and slay

[archipedia]

Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects @zahahadidarchitects Design: Zaha Hadid Architects with Patrik Schumacher Project Architects / Design Associate: Manuela Gatto Technical Associate: Dillon Lin Project Team: Hannes Schafelner, Maren Klasing, Teoman Ayas, Lisamarie Ambia, Camiel Weijenberg, Seda Zirek, Ai Sato, Andres Madrid, Amit Gupta, Sophie Le Bienvenu, Rashiq Muhamadali, Roxana Rakshani, Nupur Shah, Fabian Hecker, Saleem Jalil, Daniel Piccinelli Local Architect: Burkhardt + Partners AG Interior Design: Woods Bagot Structural Engineer: Adams Kara Taylor Facade Engineer: ARUP Berlin Cost Consultant: Baukostenplanung Ernst Lighting Consultant: Office for Visual Interaction (OVI) Fire Consultants: Amstein + Walthert Landscape Architect: Gross Max Brand Consultant: Pragma UK Location: Kloten, Switzerland Program: Competition Entry for mixed-use building: office, brand space, medical clinics, education facilities, hotel, spa, gym, restaurants, cafes Date: 2009 Client: Unique Gross Building Area: 200,000m2 Site Area: 27,845m2 Site Dimensions approx.: 550m long x 70m wide Footprint: 33,170 m2 (including bridge and upper levels) Project Name: The Circle at Zurich Airport All Images Courtesy Of Zaha Hadid Architects #archipedia #admin #maqutte #architecture #bma_architecture #architecture_greatshots #sketch #arch #archieandrews #architects #modernarchitecture #modernarch #archdaily #arch_only #zahahadid #zahahadiddesign #physicalmodel #art #archello #parametric #mimarlık #mimarlik #ماكيت # سكتش #archilove #interiordesign #parametricdesign (at Kloten, Switzerland) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6PLmGmJPAc/?igshid=jgnuvx4xmokd

[thesoulmustbebreath]

...si rimaneva sempre affascinati dagli occhi.

Erano straordinariamente grandi,

castano-dorati e leggermente sporgenti.

Se, come spesso le accadeva,

fissava davanti a sé sorridendo

e li spalancava, era come un quadro.

Ma quando guardava in viso qualcuno,

si restava turbati.

Il suo sguardo impavido era ora attento,

ora indifferente, senza la minima ombra

di imbarazzo o di timidezza.

Non proprio sfacciato, piuttosto

come quello di un bell'animale,

sincero e senza alcun segreto.

E così era anche il suo comportamento.

Non faceva mistero di quel che le piaceva

e di quel che non le garbava;

se un discorso l'annoiava,

rimaneva ostinatamente zitta

e guardava da un'altra parte, oppure

ti osservava con un'aria talmente tediata

che ci si vergognava.

Le conseguenze sono chiare.

Le ragazze la trovavano insopportabile,

gli uomini ne erano infiammati.

(Hermann Hesse - "Hans Amstein")

[seoengineerindia]

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[atomicwitchdreamer-blog-blo-blog]

...poesia allo stato puro, Hesse descrive luoghi e personaggi in modo così preciso e con parole così armoniose da far sentire il lettore avvolto da quel tepore che vorremmo sentire nei pomeriggi autunnali ed invernali...Il libro, che racchiude tutta l’ essenza di Hermann Hesse , è permeato da un'atmosfera crepuscolare e decadente il che rende tutto più intimo ed etereo...Sono tre racconti "Pellegrinaggio d'Autunno", "Hans Amstein" e l'incompiuto "La Casa dei Sogni", scritti tutti in età giovanile. La vera forza del libro sta nelle descrizioni dei paesaggi...coinvolgenti...evocative. Hesse sembra voler rendere omaggio alla natura e la dipinge con tratti che rasentano la poesia, dolci e piacevolissimi da leggere. E' proprio qui che si scorge il messaggio di ogni racconto: la ribellione da una società alienante e macchinosa in favore di una maggiore autenticità e semplicità, temi cari ad Hesse che qui risuonano nella maestosa meraviglia della natura, senza bisogno di parole esplicite... E' una lettura breve ma piena di piacevoli sensazioni che consiglio assolutamente di intraprendere chiunque ami la natura e abbia voglia di scoprire una piccola parte di sé...#instabook #igersravenna #ig_books #libri #instaravenna #consiglidilettura #bookstagram #booklovers #domenicaaperto #hermannhesse (presso Libreria ScattiSparsi Ravenna) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbCIApYM8Ij/?utm_medium=tumblr

[architectnews]

Christ & Gantenbein designs Roche office to give staff "a reason to come to work"

Swiss studio Christ & Gantenbein has created the Multifunctional Workspace Building for German pharmaceutical giant Roche that aims to offer more freedom and flexibility than a traditional office.

As the name suggests, the 10,000-square-metre Multifunctional Workspace Building serves a mix of uses, ranging from gatherings of more than 500 people to focused individual work or group collaborations.

It is the third building that Christ & Gantenbein has designed for Roche's campus in the German town of Grenzach-Wyhlen, near the Swiss border.

The Multifunctional Workspace Building facilitates both focused individual work and collaboration

This approach fuelled the design of both architecture and furniture. Some elements are designed with privacy in mind, while others have been developed to encourage openness and interaction, but everything is flexible.

At a time when more people than ever have been working from home, largely due to the pandemic, the architecture firm hopes the building will be "quite simply, a reason to come to work".

"We want to provide a space for what cannot be done remotely," said studio co-founder Emanuel Christ.

"We want to equip a workspace with personality, diversity, freedom, and flexibility in order to provide a positive experience for Roche's employees and invite the local community to participate."

Glazed corners reveal staircases in the building's four corners

Column-free floor plates were essential to creating the level of adaptability required.

The architects achieved this by locating the staircase cores in all four corners of the rectangular floor plan, allowing the rest of the interior to be completely open.

The facade of the five-storey building hints at this arrangement.

The main elevations are quite traditional, with horizontal windows divided up by slender mullions and thick bands of aluminium. Yet the corners appear to have been cut away, with just glazing left behind.

With staircases in the corners, the rest of the floor plan can be kept open

Christ & Gantenbein describes the 50-metre-wide structure as an "industrial palazzo" with a facade that "conveys dignity and representation".

The same level of order features in the interior, where the prefabricated concrete floor slab elements create coffered ceilings on every floor.

As there are very few internal walls in the building, furniture plays a more important role in defining different spaces.

So the architects worked with Swiss brand INCHfurniture to develop a series of bespoke pieces.

The repletion features a polished concrete floor and "islands" of plants

For the ground floor lobby, "islands" of plants are accompanied by curved fixtures that include a reception desk, a coffee bar and a serving kitchen, all clad in anodised and textured sheet metal.

A double-height space on the first floor creates a 550-seat auditorium that can be used in different ways. It can be partitioned into three individual halls, for more intimate events or to allow various gatherings to take place simultaneously.

The two upper levels offer a variety of workspace options, including adjustable desks, individual workspaces, privacy zones and conference rooms.

The 550-seat auditorium can be sub-divided to make it more flexible

INCHfurniture has created 10 distinct, mobile elements to structure the layout of these spaces.

These include a suspended room called Sky Box, a combined seat and planter called Forest Circle, glazed meeting rooms known as the Meeting Hubs and a set of staircase-like seats known as Agility Space.

The other six are: Creative Lab, Flexible Workstation, Community Table, Desert Area, Residential Area and Kitchenette.

Made from cork, the Forest Circle is one of several bespoke elements

Multifunctional Workspace Building shows a new side to Christ & Gantenbein, a studio best known for museum buildings such as the National Museum Zurich extension and the Lindt Home of Chocolate.

Emanuel Christ hopes the project will serve as a template for the office of the future.

"Our Multifunctional Workspace Building anticipated what is essential for both today and tomorrow," he said.

The building is located at Roche's campus in Grenzach-Wyhlen

"This was only possible through the incredibly ambitious goal pursued by all involved parties," he added, "to create something unconventional, to develop and propose something different, and to invent our own version and interpretation of contemporary collaboration."

Photography is by Walter Mair.

Project credits

Client: Roche Pharma Architecture: Christ & Gantenbein Project team: Emanuel Christ, Christoph Gantenbein; Daniel Monheim; Stephanie Müller, Moisés García, Anne Katharina Schulze; Annelie Asam, Charles Bugny, Alessandro Cairo, Thibaut Dancoisne, Alice Francesconi, Teresa Gonçalves, Ana Sofia Costa Guerra, Lukas Kerner, Daan Koch, Andrew Mackintosh, Matthias Schäfges, Anette Schick, Leandro Villalba, Jean Wagner Interior design and furniture design: INCHfurniture Planning: Itten+Brechbühl, Schnetzer Puskas Ingenieure, ZWP Ingenieur-AG, PPEngineering, hhp Berlin, IGW, Amstein + Walthert Sicherheit, INTELLICONCEPT

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[foobeech]

Brewdog - DogJ (Chocolate Coffee Imperial Stout) ‐--‐-----‐-------------------------------------- Gekauft bei: @amstein_sa Unser Untappd Rating: 4.1/5.0 (sehr gut) ‐--‐-----‐-------------------------------------- Kräftiges massives Imperial Stout. Süss, crenig, Kaffee mit einer dezenten Zartbitter Schokoladenote. Die über 14% wärmen von innen und tragen die Aromen zu den Geschmacksknospen. Dazu Vanille Glace und ein Brownie und man fühlt sich dem Himmel nahe. #amstein #stout #imperialstout #coffee #chocolate #bierstagram #bern #basel #züri #rheinfelden #craftbeer #craftnotcrap #swissbeer #beernerd #beersofinstagram #craftbier #beerwall #beerhaul #schweizerbier #birrasvizzera #bièresuisse (hier: Zürich, Switzerland) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpx3XU0NxJd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[nuadox]

How dangerous are burning electric cars?

- By Rainer Klose , Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) -

What happens if an electric car burns in a road tunnel or an underground car park? In the Hagerbach test tunnel in Switzerland, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) researchers and tunnel safety expert Lars Derek Mellert set fire to battery cells of electric cars, analyzed the distribution of soot and smoke gases and the chemical residues in the extinguishing water.

There' s a loud bang, and then it starts: A battery module of an electric car is on fire in the Hagerbach test tunnel. A video of the test impressively shows the energy stored in such batteries: Meter-long flames hiss through the room and produce enormous amounts of thick, black soot. The visibility in the previously brightly lit tunnel section quickly approaches zero. After a few minutes, the battery module is completely burnt out. Ash and soot have spread throughout the room.

Image: During a fire, a battery module of an electric car develops large amounts of soot, which contains toxic metal oxides. Credit: Amstein+ Walthert Progress AG / Empa.

Crucial information for multi-storey and underground car parks

The trial, which was funded by the Swiss Federal Roads Office (FEDRO) and in which several Empa researchers participated, took place in December 2019. The results have just been published. "In our experiment we were considering in particular private and public operators of small and large underground or multi-story car parks," says project leader Lars Derek Mellert of Amstein + Walthert Progress AG. "All these existing underground structures are being used to an increasing extent by electric cars. And the operators ask themselves: What to do if such a car catches fire? What are the health risks for my employees? What effects does such a fire have on the operation of my plant?" But until now there has been hardly any meaningful technical literature, let alone practical experience for such a case.

With the support of battery researcher Marcel Held and corrosion specialist Martin Tuchschmid from Empa, Mellert developed three test scenarios. Experts from the Hagerbach AG test tunnel and the French Centre d'études des tunnels (CETU) in Bron were also involved. "We installed test surfaces in the fire tunnel on which the soot settled," explains Martin Tuchschmid, corrosion and fire damage specialist at Empa. "After the test, the surfaces were chemically analyzed and also stored in special rooms for several months to detect possible corrosion damage."

Scenario 1: Fire in an enclosed space

The first scenario involves a fire in a closed car park without mechanical ventilation. A parking space of 28 x 28 meters area and 2.5 meters floor height was assumed. Such a floor would have an air volume of 2000 cubic meters. The fire of a small car with a fully charged battery of 32 kWh is assumed. For reasons of test economy everything was scaled down to 1/8. Thus, a fully charged battery module with 4 kWh capacity was set on fire in a room with 250 cubic meters of air volume. The tests investigated how the soot settles on tunnel walls, surfaces and on protective suits worn by firefighters on site, how toxic the residues are and by what means the fire site can be cleaned after the event.

Scenario 2: Fire in a room with sprinkler system

Scenario 2 deals with chemical residues in the extinguishing water. The test set-up was the same as in scenario 1. But this time, the smoke from the battery was channeled with the aid of a metal plate beneath a water shower that resembled a sprinkler system. The sooty water that rained down was collected in a basin. The battery was not extinguished, but burned out completely.

Image: The flammable electrolytes of an electric car battery produce flash fires. Such a fire cannot be extinguished. Instead, burning battery modules must be cooled with large quantities of water to contain the fire. Credit: Amstein+ Walthert Progress AG / Empa.

Scenario 3: Fire in a tunnel with ventilation

In this scenario, the focus of the study lay on the effect of such a fire on a ventilation system. How far is the soot distributed in the exhaust ducts? Do substances that would cause corrosion settle there? In the experiment, a 4 kWh battery module was again set on fire, but this time a fan blew the smoke at a constant speed into a 160-meter-long ventilation tunnel. At a distance of 50, 100 and 150 meters from the site of the fire, the researchers had installed metal sheets in the tunnel where the soot would settle. The chemical composition of the soot and possible corrosion effects were analyzed in the Empa laboratories.

The results of the test were published in a final report in August 2020. Project leader Mellert reassures: In terms of heat development a burning electric car is not more hazardous than a burning car with a conventional drive. "The pollutants emitted by a burning vehicle have always been dangerous and possibly fatal," says the final report. Regardless of the type of drive or energy storage system, the primary objective has to be to get everyone out of the danger zone as quickly as possible. The highly corrosive, toxic hydrofluoric acid has often been discussed as a particular danger in burning batteries. In the three tests in the Hagerbach tunnel, however, the concentrations remained below critical levels.

Conclusion: A tunnel ventilation system that is state-of-the-art can cope not only with burning gasoline/diesel cars, but also with electric cars. Increased corrosion damage to the ventilation system or the tunnel equipment is also unlikely based on the results now available.

Even the fire brigades do not have to learn anything new on the basis of the tests. Firefighters know that the battery of an electric car is impossible to extinguish and that it can only be cooled with large amounts of water. So the fire can possibly be limited to a few battery cells, and part of the battery will not burn out. Of course, such a partially burnt wreck must be stored in a water basin or a special container so that it cannot reignite. But this is already known to the specialists and is being practiced.

Video: “The experiment: Torching a battery - When electrical vehicles catch fire” by EmpaChannel, YouTube.

The extinguishing water is poisonous

A problem, however, is the extinguishing and cooling water that is produced when fighting such a fire and storing a burnt-out battery in a water basin. The analyses showed that the chemical contamination of the extinguishing water exceeds the Swiss threshold values for industrial wastewater by a factor of 70; the cooling water is even up to 100-times above threshold values. It is important that this highly contaminated water does not enter the sewage system without proper treatment. 

Professional decontamination mandatory

After the trials, the tunnel was decontaminated by a professional fire clean-up team. Samples taken subsequently confirmed that the methods and time required were sufficient for the clean-up after an electric car fire. But Mellert warns especially private owners of underground garages: "Do not try to clean up the soot and dirt yourself. The soot contains large amounts of cobalt oxide, nickel oxide and manganese oxide. These heavy metals cause severe allergic reactions on unprotected skin." So clean-up after an electric car fire is definitely a job for professionals in protective suits.

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Source: Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa)

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[rain-strive]

New character for Bolt's story, Karlo Amstein.. he's Bolts doctor and have known Bolt ever since he was little

Of course he's gonna be a good boi because that's the only type of character i can and like to create lmao //yeet.. he's a Bernese Mountain dog..ngl when I was coloring I just realized he actually reminds me of Deadman from Death Stranding 😂😂😂😂

[thesoulmustbebreath]

...si rimaneva sempre affascinati dagli occhi.

Erano straordinariamente grandi, castano-dorati e leggermente sporgenti. Se, come spesso le accadeva, fissava davanti a sé sorridendo e li spalancava, era come un quadro.

Ma quando guardava in viso qualcuno, si restava turbati.

Il suo sguardo impavido era ora attento, ora indifferente,

senza la minima ombra di imbarazzo o di timidezza.

Non proprio sfacciato, piuttosto come quello di un bell'animale, sincero e senza alcun segreto.

E così era anche il suo comportamento.

Non faceva mistero di quel che le piaceva e di quel che non le garbava; se un discorso l'annoiava, rimaneva ostinatamente zitta

e guardava da un'altra parte, oppure ti osservava con un'aria talmente tediata che ci si vergognava.

Le conseguenze sono chiare.

Le ragazze la trovavano insopportabile, gli uomini ne erano infiammati.

(Hermann Hesse - "Hans Amstein")

[masterarchitecturelu]

ANORAK

Gollion Housing Blocks - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Program : 5 200 m² / 55 appartments Situation : Gollion, Switzerland Client : Commune de Gollion Budget : 25 000 000 € Collaboration : Landinzicht Bjorn Gielen (landscape) Consulting : Amstein + Walthert (technical engineering), Bureau d'Etude Greisch (structural engineering)

[andreaebener]

Exhibitions / Awards UPCOMING #SANCTUS7 09.05.2018 / 20:00 Sihlhallenstrasse 7 Ein reines Gewissen tut gut - besonders nach einer Nacht an der Langstrasse. Wer weiss auch schon, wie viele Sünden hier pro Minute begangen werden und in wie viele man selbst verstrickt war. Im Mittelalter reichte der Kauf eines Ablassbriefes aus. Mit etwas Geld war man die begangen Sünden schnell los, ganz ohne Beichte oder andere Unannehmlichkeiten. Die Walliser Künstlerin ANDREA EBENER transportiert mit ihrer Installation #Sanctus den Ablasshandel ins Jetzt. Im Gegensatz zu damals reicht heute ein Selfie.

2016 Kulturförderpreis Wallis // Culture Award of the Canton of Wallis

Kultur Wallis

2018 Solo Exhibition / Nische / Zurich

2018 Group Exhibition / photo Leuk / Wallis

2018 Group Exhibition / Tart Zurich

2018 Solo Exhibition / We Show Off

2017 Group Exhibition / Neuzeitruinen / Zurich

2017 Group Exhibition / Kornhausforum Werkschau / Bern

2017 Group Exhibition / Appetizers / Schloss Leuk

2017 Group Exhibition / 1357,74KM’’ MAXXX / Sierre

2017 Group Exhibition / Photo Expo / Leuk

2017 Group Exhibition / Tart Zurich / Zurich

2016 Group Exhibition salon Saint-Germain des Peintres / Savièse / VS 2016 Group Exhibition /  Malévoz Quartier Culturel / LUNATIC PARK 2016 Group Exhibition / Schloss Leuk VS 2016 Solo Exhibition / Zone 30 / Sierre VS 2015 Group Exhibition / Martigny / VS 2014 Solo Exhibition / Inapa Schweiz 2014 Group Exhibition Riddes/VS / VIDONDÉE 2014 Group Exhibition / Sollbruchstelle / Zürich 2014 Group Exhibition / Photobastei / Zürich 2014 Solo Exhibition / FTA / KATAFALK / Zürich 2014 Group Exhibition / Lötschentaler Museum Wallis 2014 Solo Exhibition / Amstein+Walthert  Zürich 2012 Solo Exhibition / Rote Fabrik Zürich 2012 Solo Exhibition / Galerie Walter Keller Zürich 2011 Solo Exhibition / Razzia / Zürich 2011 Solo Exhibition / Galerie Parzelle 403 / Basel 2010 Group Exhibition / photo10 & photo12 / Zürich 2009 Group Exhibition / Schloss Leuk / VS 2008 Solo Exhibition / Cabaret Voltaire Zürich 2007 Group Exhibition / Werkhof Brig Wallis

[caremobile]

Kick-Off 2014 | J.-P. Amstein, Bundesamt für Landestopographie swisstopo

Annex One: Team Swiss Topo an atres Ford

[customers-ebener]

Christian Appert CEO Amstein + Walthert AG, Zürich