A panoramic lift is ordered where the shaft is on view: in a shopping centre atrium, on a hotel facade, in the courtyard of a historic building. An Izamet car can have one, two or three glass walls, or be transparent all round, ceiling included. We have installed such lifts for 600-1000 kg, and in most cases we designed and built the shaft for them ourselves.
Car shape and glass
The car can be rectangular, square, semicircular or round. Glass is combined with stainless steel: satin, coloured mirror or textured. The car and landing doors can also be transparent, made of laminated glass in a steel frame, and then daylight reaches the lobby in front of the lift.
There is one limitation. Fire-rated doors cannot be panoramic: if the design requires a fire rating, the landing doors are solid, in skinplate or stainless steel.
In the Genesis series the car is carried by traction belts, so no greased ropes are visible in the glass shaft. Up to 1000 kg the suspension is cantilevered: the equipment is fixed to a single load-bearing wall, and the other three sides of the shaft remain glass.
A panoramic car is built on the same series as an ordinary passenger car, so the limits on rated load, speed and travel are the same. The shaft and pit dimensions for each model are summarised on the "Series and parameters" page.
Shaft
Inside a building the shaft is made as a glazed steel frame or left as an open structure. Outdoors, in our climate, a closed glazed shaft is needed: it protects the guide rails, doors and electrics from rain and snow.
In Chernivtsi the building is an architectural monument of national significance, so the shaft was placed in the courtyard as a separate structure. It has its own foundation on bored piles and a waterproofed pit, and the frame is glazed over all four floors. Only point fixings go to the historic wall, and the entrances on the upper floors were made in place of windows.
Our Izamet panoramic lifts
| Project | Year | Lift | Shaft |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chernivtsi, 1 Hrushevskoho St. | 2026 | 630 kg, 1.0 m/s, 4 stops, glass on three sides | external, glass, on piles |
| Dolyna | 2021 | tinted Lux IS car | add-on, to our design |
| Ivano-Frankivsk, Mens shopping centre | 2021 | 1000 kg, artificial stone floor, mirror ceiling | in the atrium, next to the escalators |
| Bukovel | 2017 | 600 kg, panoramic car and landing doors | made by us |
| Lviv, 2 Volodymyra Velykoho St. | 2017 | semicircular side walls with tinted glass, four-panel doors | concrete, with panoramic windows |
| Lviv, 73 UPA St. | 2016 | 1000 kg, through car, panoramic doors | steel frame, to our design |
The projects differ precisely in the shaft. In Lviv, at Volodymyra Velykoho St., it is concrete with panoramic windows, and the landing doors are four-panel so that the opening is as wide as possible. In Bukovel and at UPA St. we made the frame and the glazing ourselves, and there the doors are panoramic too. At Mens the lift stands in the same atrium as escalators of the same brand and carries those for whom steps are not suitable.
What we find out before the calculation
How many sides of the car should be glass and whether transparent doors are needed. Where the shaft will stand: inside or on the facade. What load-bearing wall or foundation there is for it. How many stops, and whether entrances on two sides are needed. For an external shaft we include pit waterproofing in the design from the outset.
The glass in the car and doors is laminated, and tinting is ordered separately: there are tinted cars in Dolyna and at Volodymyra Velykoho St. in Lviv. The large gallery at the bottom of the page shows Izamet panoramic lifts in various buildings: shopping centre atriums, hotels, shafts on facades. They make it easy to show your architect which car and frame shape you have in mind.
Send us a photo of the location and the number of floors, and we will tell you which car will fit there. Lift request form.
Izamet panoramic cars
Photos of Izamet panoramic lifts
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