Skin of Architecture: Double-skin 2

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Campus de Jussieu, Paris, France, 2006 designed by PERIPHERIQUES ARCHITECTES

The facades are glazed on the same patern as the one on the existing building. However the glass metal skin, composed of ten types of panels perforated with circular holes of differrent sizes, gives the facades complex and variable depth. The holes also filter daylight and reflexions through the glass surface creating shimmering effects that give the building an impression of constant change - it reminds us that the original plan has “shifted”.  -- architect's web site

Source: Iwan Baan archidaily.com

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York City, New York, USA, 2009 designed by Morphosis Architects

The building reverberates with light, shadow and transparency via a high performance exterior double skin whose semi-transparent layer of perforated stainless steel wraps the building’s glazed envelope to provide critical interior environmental control, while also allowing for transparencies to reveal the creative activity occurring within.  -- ArchDaily

Built to LEED Gold standards, 41 Cooper Square was recently certified as the first LEED Platinum academic building in New York City.

Source: Naoomi Kurozu archdaily.com

Edogawa Garage Club Renovation, Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan, 2009 designed by Jun’ichi Ito Architect & Associates

Ribbons of wave-like perforated steel form a mask, the second façade of this old warehouse. Colour variations highlighted by light changes produce unexpected chequered patterns as well as silver and gold toning enhancing the façade’s versatile nature. -- ArchDaily

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Visitors Center, Atapuerca, Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain, 2009 designed by a3gm + Mata y asociados

The Center also seeks metaphorical proximity to the site, that effectively contributes to the production of new architectural organism, by recreating a part of the building that belongs to the earth (stereotomic) and one that is detached from it (tectonic), a mask protection as light as possible wrapping the whole. In this sense, the building is designed with a big concrete box -petrous nature- pierced by large skylights, and an outer perforated net that wraps and covers acting as a second skin. -- ArchDaily

Source: Jeffrey Cheng archdaily.com

Shih Chien University Gymnasium and Library, Taipei City, Taiwan, 2009 designed by Artech Architects

Both buildings have similar façades that face the green courtyard space, however the forms on the two sides of the sky plaza have contrasting elevation expressions – one receding and another protruding to create a dialogue between the activity space and quiet space. -- ArchDaily

Source: David Frutos archdaily.com

Central Office of FEDA Confederation of Employers of Albacete, Albacete, Spain designed by Cor & Asociados

We have designed this project from the idea of ‘diffuse limits’ and ‘blur’ architecture. Our intention was to cover the volume of the building with a veil capable of bluring it and making it change. We wanted the building to react to the variations of weather and the movement of users with different levels of brightness and textures. -- ArchDaily

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Pearl Academy of Fashion in Jaipur, India designed by Morphogenesis. 

The building is protected from the environment by a double skin which is derived from a traditional building element called the ‘Jaali’ which is prevalent in Rajasthani architecture. Read a post from Travel with Frank Gehry blog.

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Source: Sergio Gomez archdaily.com

Chairama SPA, Bogota, Colombia, 2010 designed by Giancarlo Mazzanti + Felipe Mesa

The facade is composed by a double skin: the first skin is located in the inside and is made of glass and concrete, the second, in the outside, is made of metal sheet cut with laser and composed by a pattern of holes in forms of rock as piled earth layers. This texture is compressed or expanded to allow transparency or isolation and defines the visual and environmental exchanges with the outside. -- ArchDaily

Source: Thomas Lewandovski archdaily.com

Fraunhofer-Institute TZA, Darmstadt, Germany, 2010 designed by JSWD Architekten

Adaptronik’s complexity, concerned with the development of self-adjustable structure systems, is reduced to its basic aspects: action and reaction. Irregularly perforated brass bond sheets that react to varying light conditions by changing colour transport this principle outward. -- ArchDaily

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Town Hall Hotel, London, UK, 2010 designed by rare

Wrapped entirely by a laser cut powder coated aluminium skin, no windows or doors are externally visible, allowing it to create a striking abstract backdrop to the original structure, while simultaneously making a definite statement as new architecture. -- ArchDaily

Source: Bill Timmerman archdaily.com

Tresarca, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2010 designed by assemblageSTUDIO

The mesh screen provides both a protection from the harsh sun on the interior spaces and a play of shadows among the forms. -- ArchDaily

Source: Emre Dörter archdaily.com

Sipopo Congress Center, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, 2011 designed by Tabanlioglu Architects

The rectangular  two-storey block is nested in a semi-transparent metal envelop as a shield protecting from strong lights and create an implication of security, protecting the interiors from sharp sun beams yet benefiting the daylight at optimum. The lacy texture of the mesh behaves like sun-break and grants a shady interior without hindering the accent of transparency. The building with its elegant veil visually merges to the ocean and the surrounding greenery in serenity, reflecting the beauty of the surroundings. -- ArchDaily

Source: Adrià Goula archdaily.com

Banc Sabadell Headquarters, Barcelona, Spain, 2012 designed by Bach Arquitectes

The façade is made out of a zigzagging dark grey expanded metal mesh, overlapped by openings enclosed by large aluminium frames providing depth to an otherwise extremely thin façade. This façade works as a double skin with a ventilation chamber; the zigzagging metal mesh allows the whole building to be protected from solar radiation generating a natural ventilation chamber that allows for a larger efficiency of the thermal properties of the building. An aesthetic quality is added to this functional quality since the different angles in the elevation generate different subtleties and shadows changing according to the angle of the solar radiation, which allows them to keep changing their aspect along the day. -- ArchDaily

Source: Sergio Grazia archdaily.com

Cardinet-Quintessenee, Paris, France, 2012 designed by Périphériques architectes

Périphériques Architects rethinks the building envelope, creating a protective metal skin and using innovative exterior wall insulation. Clad in lace-like metal, the walls are protected and energy efficiency is enhanced. This iconic facade glints in the sunlight and becomes a symbol of the architecture of tomorrow. -- ArchDaily

Source: Charlie Xia archdaily.com

Green Energy Laboratory, Shanghai, China, 2012 designed by Archea

Every single environment enjoys the benefits derived from the maximization of ventilation and natural lighting through a dual-facing configuration: towards the court and towards the exterior where a double skin guarantees the control and the screening of sun rays on the glazed surfaces. -- ArchDaily

Source: Sébastien Morel archdaily.com

Institut des Sciences Analytiques, Villeurbanne, France, 2012 designed by PARC ARCHITECTES

The convex facade of the building on the street side is a protecting architectural mesh made of perforated stainless steel. The structure of the building is made of prefabricated concrete gantries. -- ArchDaily

Source: Dario Diarena archdaily.com

Citadel of Construction, Perugia, Italy, 2013 designed by HOFLAB

....to save energy by promoting a conscientious use of resources which is principally dealt with through the typological characters and the spatial conformation, and secondarily through the technical components: the metal sunscreen, the small scale wind turbines, the solar thermal and photovoltaic systems all act in different but complementary ways, allow a rational consumption of energy. -- ArchDaily

Source: Jens Lindhe archdaily.com

Trollbeads House, Toldbodgade 13, København K, Denmark, 2013 designed by BBP Arkitekter

Between the two rounded party walls, a skin of glass is stretched to cover the roof and facade. On the outside a brass curtain is hung, making a kind of inverted curtain wall. -- ArchDaily

Source: Stefan Tuchila archdaily.com

Calberson Housing S2, Paris, France designed by Atelier d’Architecture Brenac-Gonzalez

The facades are build using and exterior insulation system, doubled by an anodized aluminium skin, made of both fixed and mobile panels. -- ArchDaily