Skin of Architecture: Double-skin 7

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Ciudad Digital, Almería, Almería, Spain, 2005 designed by CHSarquitectos

A peculiar metallic lattice wraps everything: the ” box of information “, the pedestal and the offices. We design the cage as front that limits the exterior(foreign) edge of the pit and raise a metallic accumulation of profiles, carpentries of aluminium and sheets perforated of diverse colors, which works like surrounding protective of the solar radiation and of the strong light of the coast. -- ArchDaily

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CEDT Daimiel, Daimiel, Ciudad Real, Spain, 2007 designed by Estudio Entresitio

On the outside, the project tries to solve the image of a public building fitted in a housing neighbourhood, being covered with a metallic skin of louvers made out of micro perforated galvanized plates that helps loosing the scale of every single window, showing a textured volume, protecting the interior of outer views and improving thermal conditions inside the building avoiding direct isolation. -- ArchDaily

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Tokyo Steel House, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 2007 designed by MDS

At street level the building has a reinforced concrete garage (below ground), while above ground it consists of a four-level living space made of thin steel walls. The exterior walls of this ten-meter-tall building are bolted together from supporting beams made of lightweight, breathable material, which, including the wooden finish, is 100 mm thick. The exterior appearance was decided in accordance with setback zoning laws, and the south facade faces the sun, is covered with dual-layer expanding metal that limits sight lines from outside. -- ArchDaily

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The Screened House, Singapore designed by Brewin Design Office

The house completely opens up to the exterior through the use of bi-folding full height metal screens on both floors of the front and back facades. Without providing any glazing behind the metal screens and with the use of movable interior partitions, the large openings on both facades promote a consistent wind flow through all the interior spaces, while the screens filter natural light into the house. -- ArchDaily

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The New York Times Building, New York City, New York, USA, 2007 designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, FXFOWLE Architects

The steel-framed building, cruciform in plan, utilizes a screen of 1 ⁵⁄₈ (41.3 mm) ceramic rods mounted on the exterior of the glass curtain wall on the east, west and south facades. The rod spacing increases from the base to the top, providing greater transparency as the building rises. The steel framing and bracing is exposed at the four corner "notches" of the building. -- wikipedia

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Nestlé Social Block, Graneros, Chile, 2009 designed by GH+A Guillermo Hevia

The double-skin, made out of corten steel, which wraps around the building, create an avant-garde image. Constructed as a continuous surface, it protects against the solar radiation and due to its separation to the building, it creats a vertical Venturi ventilation, supplying temperated air on account of the evaporation of the surrounding pond. This metalic double skin consists out of different perforation treatments, plain sheets and black glass. -- ArchDaily

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Swimming Pool in “Bola de Oro” Sports Centre, Granada, Andalucia, Spain, 2009 designed by José Luis Rodríguez Gil

....a prism that has a skin of galvanized steel Tramex, that reinterprets the traditional lattices that allow you to see without being seen, hiding the interior and and showing the city to the users, and also serves as a solar control element.  The lattice protects the building from unwanted summer sun exposure in all its facades, and allows capture by the south side of 50% of incident radiation in winter, helping to reduce the thermal loads, and therefore, energy consumption and CO2 emissions. -- ArchDaily

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Administrative Center Jesenice, Jesenice, Slovenia, 2009 designed by Studio Kalamar

The outer skin of the building establishes a dialogue with the steel-manufacturing industrial tradition of Jesenice. Even today, many of the houses in town are red -rusty, and the facade of the administrative centre is rusty indeed due to its Corten skin. A pulsing rhythm of facade openings creates a horizontal dynamics, establishing a dialogue with dynamics of the traffic. Natural light, natural ventilation, spontaneous transition of spaces are elements that create optimal working conditions for employees as well. By using efficient Corten panel shades, use of quality window systems and good thermal insulation we created a inert energy system which will ensure very low running costs. -- ArchDaily

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Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2011 designed by TK&A Architects

Perhaps the most engaging feature of the building’s exterior is the panelized terracotta screen on the south/southwest-facing façade, which combats solar heat gain and glare, and adds a varying degree of transparency; a contemporary spin on the traditional brick found elsewhere on the BMC campus. -- ArchDaily

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Headquarters Caja de Badajoz, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain, 2011 designed by Studio Lamela Architects

The overall image of the building arose as a direct answer to the powerful Estremadura sun. In order to mitigate its impact, both facades have a double skin composed of glass on the inside and large ‘metallic’ stripes on the outside: horizontal ones in the vertical tower and vertical ones in the horizontal volume of the base. -- ArchDaily

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Monash University Student Housing, Monash, Australia designed by BVN Architects

Shared spaces and vertical circulation are located at the centre of each building encouraging interaction. The main communal spaces are double storey volumes playing an important role in connecting all levels and defining the architectural composition. -- ArchDaily

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Corim Logements, Montpellier, France, 2012 designed by MDR Architectes

The conception of the building’s crowning is voluntarily innovative and differs from previous projects: made of two boxes placed freely on the bodies of the building anchoring plots, the attic aspires to more freedom. These volumes also contrast by their coverings: fitted with fine vertical slates, the attic becomes a changing object, where brown tones dominate, giving it a lighter feel when it is in fact a solid construction. These boxes open widely towards the sea, to the south, like a tube or hollow volume. This permits the access to beautiful walk-in shielded patios for the living units located within these boxes. The unobstructed view on the park and water pond gives a special status to these apartments. -- ArchDaily

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Envision Energy Headquarters, Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China designed by AECOM

The facade is composed of a perforated metallic skin that functions as a solar veil. -- ArchDaily

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Green Houses, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2012 designed by Sander Architects

The rest of the building skin is composed of a shade screen created by diagonal, 1” x 2” aluminum angles. Green materials and strategies include passive heating and cooling, natural daylighting, shade screens, bamboo flooring, high-performance glazing, kitchen cabinetry from FSC-certified wood, recycled glass countertops, low-flush toilets, low VOC paint, and more. -- ArchDaily

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International Centre for the Arts Jose de Guimarães, Guimarães, Portugal, 2012 designed by Pitagoras Arquitectos

The coatings, a grid of metal profiles in brass and glass surfaces chromatised on ventilated façades, accentuates a range of textures that is intended display, more dense and opaque in the majority of faces in the case of the metal structure, and transparent when it covertly comes to glass surfaces that intentionally conceal the few openings that the building comprises. -- ArchDaily

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Brock University, St Catharines, ON, Canada, 2012 designed by Payette – ArchitectsAlliance

....a series of glass “layers” allow daylight to penetrate deep into the building. There are also surface treatments on the glass, as well as an exterior screen wall that controls the light entering the building. The various types of glass and screens provide transparency, illumination, light filtration and privacy. -- ArchDaily

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San Vicente Ferrer, Madrid, Spain, 2012 designed by James & Mau

The design of the facade is covered by regulations that require a traditional composition of arranged holes. So, we stick to this constraint by using a modern technique of ventilated facades which copies the traditional composition of holes. Also, corten steal skin creates a double bioclimatic facade that harnesses the sun as passive heating in winter and protects from it in summer. -- ArchDaily

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Het Bushok, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2012 designed by Borren Staalenhoef Architecten

The Cor-Ten steel building is placed on a concrete basement. Both parts were fully prefabricated, transported with a low loader truck and then assembled on site. The south façade features a large perforated section door or hatch (length 7.5 meters) wich kan be opened and parked on the roof. Except that the panel shows when the gallery is open or closed, it can be used as a sunscreen. When closed the hatch also acts as a light filter or privacy screen to enable quiet working. The perforations provide a nice filtered light. The pattern refers to the reeds along the surrounding lakes. -- ArchDaily

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Maison Escalier, Paris, France, 2012 designed by Moussafir Architectes

Electronically operated metal shutters with a laser-cut leaf pattern shade the new, glazed southern facade and provide privacy for the occupant–as well as the neighbors. -- Architectural Record

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Indoor Rock Climbing, Brixen, South Tyrol, Italy, 2012 designed by W. Meraner – M. Mutschlechner

The multi-layer facade creates a moiré effect, generating always new impressions for the moving observer and both the users inside as also the viewer outside in a dynamic relationship to the climbing gym provides. In the planning of the climbing Hall, ecological aspects and sustainability were essential. -- ArchDaily

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K House, Sao Paulo, Brasil, 2012 designed by Studio Arthur Casas

....perforated metal panels, with a pattern based in the photograph of a leaf. In this way the proximity of the neighbors became less oppressive and the spaces create an interesting relation with the variations of the sun. -- ArchDaily

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Click Clack Hotel, Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia, 2012 designed by Plan B Arquitectos

This hotel is an attempt to open or permeate the norm: it is slim and has four open facades due to side setbacks; the larger facades are set back to allow a double skin of metal and glass, and the main facade articulates urban life and cantilevers the 1.5 m allowed by the building code. -- ArchDaily

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Dragonfly, Sangam-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul, South Korea designed by iArc Architects

The building is fabricated with a soft inner skin and rigid outer skin as the client requested computational task environment for office. -- ArchDaily

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Goodwood Residence, Bukit Timah Road, Singapore, 2013 designed by WOHA

Inspired by patterns of traditional Asian woven textiles and the roll up bamboo chicks of the black and white colonial houses in the vicinity, all typical apartment units (2^nd storey upwards) feature fine aluminium fins orientated at 45 degrees to north-south, that are devised as operable façade screens which not only provide vertical sun shading without compromising on ventilation, but also allows user-controlled amounts of privacy as well as facade animation. -- ArchDaily

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Gudou Plaza, Pushkin Street, Sukhumi, Georgia, 2013 designed by Andrey Ukolov + Ekaterina Osipova

....the used façade system functions as the protection from the sun light, preserves the internal space from overheating, hides diaphragm plate fitted behind the glazing (the building situated in earthquake-prone zone). Façade segments are pre-fabricated details and made from aluminum profile. Maintenance scaffolds are placed between two surfaces of the glazing. -- ArchDaily

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Housing in Le Havre, Le Havre, France, 2013 designed by PHD Architectes

The project’s volume mass and simplicity contrast with the envelope’s lightness, which is especially sophisticated given the program it encompasses. The outside insulation over the bare concrete is protected by a first sound- and water-proof skin to which the metallic cladding is attached. -- ArchDaily

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Auditorium Of Bondy & Radio France Choral Singing Conservatory, Bondy, France designed by PARC Architectes

The architecture of the building plays with the aesthetics of the hangar : a very simple square plan and an undulated metal skin. Unlike a traditional hangar, it opens to its context through a series of arches, letting in natural light and views. Inside, every space has a specific acoustics related to its function and its ambiance. -- ArchDaily