Fürstenburg boarding house, South Tyrol, Italy

Presented with the CasaClima Award 2017, the boarding house is described as an architectural jewel – and justifiably so. The architect created a true masterpiece of design in just 13 months. 180 new windows adorn the white, futuristic, four-storey building, which accommodates 100 students. The narrow, dark aluminium outer frames of the FIN-72 windows and FIN-Project windows create a striking contrast with the bright façade. The glass-covered Nova-line products used in the building give it a modern, all-glass appearance. Thanks to their modular structure, the FIN-Vista window walls allowed doors to be integrated effortlessly into the boarding house. Despite the abundance of glass surfaces, the plastic core gives the building outstanding thermal insulation.

Construction data at a glance