Hyatt Place, Zurich Airport The Circle, Switzerland

Name and location:
Hyatt Place, Zurich Airport The Circle, Switzerland

Architects:
Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop 

General contractor:
HRS Real Estate AG

Owner:
Flughafen Zürich AG, Zürich

Products installed:
Electric curtain tracks SG 5600 (specially developed sloped systems), Colorama 1, colour 410 
Hand operated curtain tracks SG 6293, Colorama 1, colour 410

Photos:
©Hyatt Place Zurich Airport The Circle

Hyatt Place Zurich Airport “The Circle” has 300 rooms and is the first hotel of the Hyatt Place brand in Switzerland. It offers access to The Circle Convention Centre, which is one of the largest event centres in Switzerland. The eye-catching feature of the building is the glass façade, which is around 40 metres high and slopes at an angle of up to 19° towards Zurich Airport. 

Silent Gliss therefore worked with HRS and the architect to develop motorised inclined systems for interior shading. The biggest challenge was to keep the curtain taut and be able to operate it. The day and night curtains can be operated at the touch of a button using two parallel electric curtain tracks SG 5600. Rooms without slanted windows were fitted with SG 6293 hand operated curtain tracks.