Ceiling islands are ceiling surfaces made up of several individual ceiling elements, which have a distance to walls and to each other. Metawell can manufacture individual elements up to a size of 1480 mm x 6000 mm seamlessly and undivided. If several individual elements are put together, we speak of ceiling islands.
With Metawell, the contour of a ceiling island does not always be rectangular. Our rigid and very lightweight panel can realize any contour. From triangular to trapezoidal or from rounded to circular, there are no limits to the design. Even free forms are feasible.
The individual elements are joined together using our tongue and groove system. The sails are machined so precisely at the milled edges that only a narrow hairline joint is visible.
The tongue and groove technique ensures evenness across the hairline joint so that grazing light has no chance. This
hairline is barely visible to the observer and gives the impression of a large, continuous ceiling panel.
Tongue and groove system
The perforation will be visually continuous across all elements of the island, creating the impression of a large, continuous ceiling surface. The unperforated edge supports this impression. Its width is also freely selectable; it can be a minimum of 30 mm, but can also be up to 300 mm wide.
We refer to ceiling islands that can be fitted with lights, loudspeakers and air diffusers as functional or hybrid ceiling islands. If the fixtures are visible from the room, they (the fixtures) often have a cover frame that conceals the cut-out. If frameless fixtures are used, we can arrange an unperforated edge around the cut-out. Ventilation boxes can even be concealed on the back of the island. To do this, we mill a fixation into the back of the islands, precisely fitting the installation part. The ventilation box is installed and connected into this fixing on site. The ventilation box installed in this way cannot be seen from the room.
The ceiling islands are installed in a similar way to our sails. Threaded rods with crossbars and counter hooks must be arranged for each individual element; the exact position is noted in the ceiling plan. The individual elements are hooked into the counter hooks using safety ropes, connected to flow and return lines and pushed into the groove of the neighboring sail. The resulting ceiling islands are virtually surface-finished. On the other hand, there are relatively heavy drywall ceilings that have to be filled, sanded and painted and which simply take longer to produce and have a more massive effect.
Thanks to the wide range of design options, the functional and hybrid ceiling islands are not just functional elements, but design objects that meet the highest design and architectural requirements.
