{"id":30980,"date":"2021-03-24T13:37:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T13:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nova-elevators.com\/outdoor-home-lift-installed-at-the-top-of-a-ww-ii-bunker-in-germany\/"},"modified":"2023-01-26T15:25:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T15:25:30","slug":"outdoor-home-lift-installed-at-the-top-of-a-ww-ii-bunker-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nova-elevators.com\/en\/outdoor-home-lift-installed-at-the-top-of-a-ww-ii-bunker-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor home lift installed at the top of a WW II bunker in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

A very peculiar installation: an outdoor NOVA Elevators home lift installed in an anti-aircraft artillery bunker in Germany!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Autumn 2020, Germany. We received a very special request from an Architect based in Bremen through our German partner: to install a lift necessary to connect his villa, located at the top of a WWII anti-aircraft artillery bunker, to the street level.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The request: the outdoor home lift needed to connect the elevated villa entrance to the street level<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The installation that our partner brought us into was undoubtedly out of the ordinary, not only because of the special architectural project<\/strong> – which involved the recovery of the disused bunker and the construction of a modern and prestigious villa on its top – but also for the functionality of the home lift itself, which is conceived as an access door to the villa in all respects.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The entrance to the villa is raised<\/strong> – it is located between the third and fourth floor of the building – and can only be reached by walking along an external staircase. Therefore, an elevator<\/strong> was needed to access the building: it had to be designed in perfect harmony with the style of the building, characterized by the reinforced concrete bunker, steel structures painted in shades of gray, and the modern villa, with large glass windows.<\/p>\n

The customer idea was to install the elevator on the side of the building facing the street,<\/strong> near the sidewalk – in a clearly visible area, but with a little space available for the elevator – and to transform the home lift into a second entrance<\/strong> to the villa, to be protected with a security PIN<\/strong> and with a video intercom system integrated with the home automation system,<\/strong> all in full compliance with precise energy efficiency requirements.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The solution: a Suite Lift outdoor home lift by NOVA Elevators<\/strong><\/h2>\n

A made-to-measure home lift<\/strong>,<\/a> versatile<\/strong>, with materials and finishes that matched the architectural style of the building.<\/p>\n

“We designed an outdoor home lift with reduced pit, thermal-resistant lift doors, and steel, and glass metal shaft, to guarantee a perfect aesthetic result and to meet the energy efficiency needs of the architect” <\/em>explains NOVA Elevators Sales Manager for the German-speaking countries.<\/p>\n

NOVA Sales Area Manager and the Technical Department, together with the German partner, suggested an outdoor Suite Lift home lift<\/strong> <\/a>with the following features:<\/p>\n