DORMA Variflex for Welsh High School |
St Julian's High School, just off the M4 on the outskirts of Newport in South Wales, has recently installed a DORMA Variflex movable wall system. The school, built just after the war, has a main hall that can hold up to one thousand five hundred people. The facility is frequently rented out for functions and to lend greater flexibility to the available space it was decided to install a movable wall, room dividing system.
The popular new choice of the moment is the revolutionary lightweight DORMA MOVEO movable wall system. However, the ceiling height in the hall at St Julian's - at almost six metres - precluded MOVEO and the school settled for the next best option, the DORMA Variflex system.
With its many design and constructional variants, it is ideal for any application where people meet, communicate and generally need to feel comfortable in their surroundings.
The Variflex system offers a wide choice of elements and stacking / parking arrangements. Its high level of flexibility, even in the case of complicated room proportions where sloping ceilings or circular spaces have to be accommodated, ensures that there is always the benefit of optimum functionality.
There is an enormously wide range of surface finishes to choose from as well - including genuine wood veneers that can be ebonised, waxed, brushed or lime washed - to laminates, metallic finishes, granite fabric coverings and stainless steel inserts. Sheet steel, fibreglass surfaces, glass inserts, mirrors and textile coverings are also available.
On this occasion the product type specified is a manual Variflex Solid model, 6000mm x 16000mm in size, with a 100mm thickness and sound insulation value of 49dB. The top is a white laminate and the bottom finish an oak laminate, with a 6mm shadow gap.
To overcome the unevenness of the floor in the hall, deeper than usual horizontal seals were used top and bottom inside the elements.
