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Swissbau Innovation Lab

How precisely will we plan, build and live in future?

In the Swissbau Innovation Lab, we take up this question and allow visitors to experience the future of the construction industry in a special show.

Swissbau is Switzerland’s biggest construction fair. The last time it was held, the event and network format Swissbau Focus, for which we have assumed the project management since 2012, staged key events relating to the digitisation of the construction industry. This attracted a great deal of interest on the part of visitors and a huge response in the industry as a whole. In its next edition in January 2018, Swissbau will be taking a more detailed look at this highly topical theme. We are developing the Swissbau Innovation Lab as a new highlight at the trade fair in close cooperation with a number of partners and, in particular, Bauen Digital Schweiz.

Focus on digital transformation

Together with Swiss experts and leading companies, we will be bringing the transformation of the building industry to life in the Swissbau Innovation Lab and staging the technologies of the future so that they can be experienced. Taking the life cycle of a building, we show how the value-added chain in the building industry is changing in the framework of digitisation. To do this, we have developed two different elements: the Innovation Village and the iRoom.

The innovations in the sector at a glance

In the Innovation Village, leading manufacturers, opinion leaders, planners and researchers present their latest products and solutions. In this way, visitors to the fair will be able, for the very first time, to obtain a compact overview of current technologies over a very small surface area, providing the optimum starting point for their individual visit.

Interactive experience of the future of the construction industry

The iRoom is a virtual meeting space designed especially for the Swissbau Innovation Lab. Visitors to the fair immerse themselves in the digital experience world in groups and see right up close how buildings are planned, built, operated and used today and in the future. Guided in their work, and using virtual and augmented reality tools, participants are able to solve a specific task in a building project. In each of the phases, we display innovative technologies and exciting digital use cases. Each group builds up on the results of its predecessors.

Co-creation with strong partners

The Swissbau Innovation Lab is being developed and implemented jointly with partners from research, planning, construction and operation. The “Bauen digital Schweiz” interest group, as the main partner, is assuming a leading role in the development of the contents.

Are you interested? As an exhibitor at Swissbau, you can also apply to have an info point in the Innovation Lab.

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Bathroom Trends

Bathrooms are moving away from their role as functional washrooms and increasingly becoming a cosy oasis for the senses offering all modern conveniences.

Absolute privacy – the bathroom

In entering the bathroom, people walk into their own private sphere. Dressing and sleeping areas, and relaxation and fitness zones are an individual’s own, highly personal world. High-grade furnishing schemes that overcome the boundaries between wet rooms and living rooms fit in with this aspiration. In the private residential building sector, interior designers are taking over the reins and focusing on the new living space as a whole for its individual configuration. And these trends are also emerging in the rented residential building sector too. In parallel, modular bathroom programmes tailored to both small and big floor plans are offering attractive freedom in planning, especially for renovation work. This is due, not least to innovative materials and production processes which are what make it possible to develop completely new designs, shapes and dimensions at all. Hence, mineral-cast and composite materials, and thin-walled ceramics are changing the shape and aesthetics of washstands and bathtubs. Innovative glass is giving shower cubicles a transparent look, and walk-in solutions without visible mountings and attachments are all the rage. Carefully thought-out flooring and drainage systems are making step-free shower zones into the standard.

«IN THE BATHROOM, BARRIER-FREE COMFORT BATHS AND FITTINGS ARE A MAJOR TOPIC.»

In the bathroom, barrier-free comfort baths and fittings are a major topic.

Bathroom futures

The structure of society and demographic development, a wide range of different forms of living together and lifestyles, and the high demands placed on individuality are causing large numbers of decades-old planning standards to disappear – supported and driven by technological progress. In the bathroom, barrier-free comfort baths are a major topic, as well as fittings which can be used by everyone, despite physical limitations. Ingenious and attractive solutions in this field will not only appeal to older people. The concept of comfort also takes in the aspects of hygiene, safety, saving on water and energy efficiency. Free-formable, lightweight materials provide imaginatively styled bathtubs as a contrast to the classic tubs in ceramics or enamelled steel, which feature proudly as sculptures in the centre of the bathroom. Washstands and wash basins are similarly breaking out of their traditional patterns, offering surfaces like islands and granting greater freedom of movement. Electronic fittings are in the process of creating new ways of using and experiencing water: with a gentle touch, at the push of a button or contact-free. Finely dosed as a spray, forceful like a pulsating vortex, or a wide torrent, the water flows at the programmed favourite temperature from narrow necks or flat discs.

Everything where it belongs – skilfully placed storage surfaces ensure freedom of movement.

Exhibitors Bathroom Trends 2018
Artweger, Bekon-Koralle, Bodenschatz, Dornbracht, duka, Duravit, Duscholux, Effegibi, Franke Water Systems, Franz Kaldewei, Fratelli Fantini, Hansgrohe, HSK Swiss, Inda, Keramik Laufen, Küng Sauna & Spa, KWC, LaPreva, Schneider W. + Co., SIDLER Metallwaren, Similor, talsee, TECE Schweiz, Vola

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Kitchen Trends

Are the days of over-dimensioned extractor hoods now gone? These can now also be integrated in the cooker hob.

The kitchen cooks

The kitchen is part of the “public” living space: open to family life and everyday routines, ready for socialising with friends, equipped for large-scale cooking, and not only when guests arrive. Through its very function it is geared to comprehensive technical fittings and rationalisation, because, just like at any workplace, the labour-saving and time-saving aspects are what count here. Or perhaps not – or up to what point? Over the years, scarcely any other aspect of the home has been revolutionised by ingenious technologies to the same extent as housework. And now, in the age of digitisation, kitchens and washrooms are set to benefit once again. After household appliances had been further developed to make them highly energy efficient, the smallest of computer processors, microelectronic sensors and storage media are now giving rise to truly miraculous appliances that can do far more than simply saving work and time: they do the thinking too! The recipe for success: user-oriented programming. In all the different languages, the operating panels guide users intuitively and logically through the programmes on ovens, dishwashers, fridges, washing machines and tumble dryers. Fridges have different cooling zones for storing different foods. Hobs automatically recognise the pan size and can be finely adjusted to the cooking process.

«KITCHEN DESIGN IS GEARED TO MODULAR SYSTEMS, FREE SPACE AND A MULTI-MATERIAL MIX»

Back to nature – modern kitchens unite innovative technology with sensuous materials like natural wood.

Brave new kitchen world

Kitchen design is geared to modular systems, free space and a multi-material mix. The functional zones are configured to suit individual tastes. The sink unit is becoming a true food preparation centre – water-saving fittings with electronic controls, switch-in lighting and additional functions are changing the customary picture. Multi-functionality, networking and automation are determining developments in appliances, while the self-assured handling of all the different interior design instruments are determining the design. Hence a cooking and eating zone feature in modern living rooms – just like a sofa, seating arrangements and a reading or TV corner. People are naturally mobile, flexible and open to all modern conveniences – as well as to everything that constitutes an expression of personality and individuality. Rigid furniture configurations are just as obsolete as yesterday’s technology.

Or natural quartz.

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Exhibitors Kitchen Trends 2018
Armony, Bora, Bulthaup, Cosentino, Franke, Küche Schweiz, Merial, Möbel Roth, Orea, Peka-Metall, Piatti, SieMatic, Suter Inox, Team 7, Veriset, Wesco

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«Raumwelten»

Awaiting visitors is a creative overall experience on the subjects of floor/wall/celling, light/electrical installations, fireplaces and office and building furnishings.

The interior design section has traditionally been one of the highlights at Swissbau. The “Raumwelten” exhibition concept launched in 2016 has been further developed and will surprise visitors with the new and special displays staged. The stand areas are surrounded by experimentation zones as well as by food and relaxation areas. Being part of the “Raumwelten” has a first-mover effect. Or, as Michel Hueter, managing director of the Design Prize Switzerland says:

«The “Raumwelten” extend the target groups to the fields of architecture, living, and product design.»

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Swissbau Focus

Swissbau Focus is a meeting and networking format that Swissbau devises jointly with trade associations, organisations, universities and the media and that has been running since 2012. Its long-term focus is on the themes of energy, education, densification and the lifecycle of buildings. Specialised skills are disseminated in some sixty or so events. At the same time, networking is promoted between themes, exhibitors and participants. The Swissbau Focus partners have a live presence in Hall 1.0 South in lounges and with information points.

Collaboration – All together or everyone for themselves?
MORE THAN FORTY INDUSTRY ORGANISATIONS WITH ONE SHARED GOAL: always keeping right up-to-date. At some sixty organised events under the overall motto of “Collaboration – All working together or everyone for themselves?”, we meet up in Swissbau Focus to discuss the current opportunities and challenges facing the construction sector, the new technologies and business models, revolutionary methods and processes and the interaction between human beings in matters of planning, building and use. In short: to discuss shaping the future.

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