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Cultural Buildings

MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Italy

Project data

Location: Rome, Italy

National museum for art and architecture of the 21st century

Construction period: 2003-2009

Architect: Zaha Hadid, London

Requirements

  • high fair-faced concrete requirements
  • smooth fair-faced concrete with predetermined joint and tie pattern
  • widely curved reinforced steel walls with heights up to 14 m without horizontal concrete joint
  • self-compacting concrete SVB with concrete pressure up to 150 kN/m²
  • reverse inclination of front wall

Customer

ARGE MAXXI 2006

Customer's benefit

  • achieving very high surface qualities
  • easy positioning of the 3D formwork due to high dimensional accuracy
  • no deflection when erecting the VARIO large elements
Gianni Scenna
Construction manager

The formwork utilisation planned by PERI and the support on the spot during the construction time enabled us to experience the best possible construction sequence. For us, VARIO was the perfect wall formwork system which made the production of these parts possible, which are extraordinary regarding their shapes and dimensions. Adjusted to the use of self-compacting concrete with a fresh concrete pressure of up to 150 kN/m², we were able to achieve very high surface qualities.

PERI solution

  • delivery of completely assembled 3D formwork elements, based on rentable VARIO basic elements
  • 3D building model
  • VARIO GT 24 girder wall formwork system with fair-faced concrete coupling
  • VARIO large elements up to a height of 14 m, partly shuttered in a polygonal way for curvatures
  • utilisation of large-size Fin-Ply Maxi formwork panels
  • formwork and element concept for reversely inclined front wall
  • support during the construction time

PERI systems in use