Skin of Architecture: Punched Holes 5

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Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1975 designed by Harry Weese

The facade is irregularly perforated with slit windows (5 inches wide by 7 ½ feet long) marking inmates' cells, creating a perforated monolith. A homage evoking "La Tourette on its end," the lobby proudly displays Corbusian stairs and pilotis.  -- Design Observer

Source: Fernando Alda archdaily.com

Belén Street Studio, Granada, Spain, 2009 designed by Elisa Valero Ramos

a wall pierced with narrow, regular openings and a single opening on the upper part. Like a traditional Granada house, it is closed to the street, open to the sky and garden.  -- ArchDaily

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Vallecas Social Housing, Madrid, Spain designed by Estudio Entresitio completed in 2009.  Via MIMAO.

The outer shell uses resources of non-differentiation and scale ambiguity. It is a skin of zinc scales set in horizontal bands that slide one over another with a slight offset, and in which voids are inserted with the intention of not making clear the floor levels. We propose a combinatorial system of recognizable types of housing windows which are placed at the best position from the inside of the rooms. On this support structure of unity and also of diversity, are added some projecting crates, that as free forms of distortion, introduce a slight vibration on the elevation.  -- ArchDaily

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San Alberto Hurtado’s Memorial, Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile, 2010 designed by Undurraga Devés Arquitectos

....one dense and translucent mass that appears as a wall on the outside with light inside. It was then that this wall of concrete and blocks of glass arose where the density and color of both materials fuses into one sole façade, whilst inside, the wall appears fragmented and perforated by the light. -- ArchDaily

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The Lifting House, Cascais, Portugal designed by Guedes Cruz Arquitectos

The L-deployment was maintained and the house gained strength with a new surrounding: a large wall in “cratered” grey concrete slabs, which protects three sides without cutting it off from the world. -- ArchDaily

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CHEGS Campus Canteen, Baoding, Hebei, China, 2014 designed by KNOWSPACE

....consists of 2 layers: while an inner layer with a series of floor to ceiling glass windows provides climatic separation, the outer layer is a screen-like perforated stone facade with gradually varying degrees of opening, both servind as a shading and a opening device. -- ArchDaily