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Office Building E, Prague, Czech Republic, 2007 designed by Aulík Fišer Architects

A ´broken´ façade is designed facing the source of noise – 5. kvetna street and the access ramp – with strip fenestration. Its moulding was defined by the specific highway curve and the ramp from Vyskocilova (street) in order to prevent reverberation of noise generated by cars passing by towards the above-mentioned houses on the opposite side of the highway.

The designed geometry allows areas of this special envelope to bounce noise away either to the grassed slope between the highway and the ramp naturally absorbing it, or diverting it at a large angle upwards and diffusing it in the open space high above. -- ArchDaily

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Liverpool Department Store, Huixquilucan, Mexico, 2011 designed by Rojkind Arquitectos

The double-layered façade shelters the store and it’s users from its chaotic environment. It’s sleek stainless steel machine-like exterior, is intended to evolve in a very fluid way as the intense sun bathes it throughout the day. It’s a contradiction to the grit and chaos of its sur- roundings; a juxtaposition that becomes a new reference for this part of the city. At night the hollow cavity between the layers of the façade will be engulfed in light that will subtly escape through the fine reliefs formed at the folds in the skin. The façade transforms

at night from its solid monochromatic ap- pearance during the day to a dynamic form accented by light. -- ArchDaily

Second Skin By Michael Cockram -- Architectural Record

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Kantana Institute, Nakhon Pathom Province, Thailand, 2011 designed by Bangkok Project Company

A brick is an everyday material for common cultural heritage of Thai society. The simplified from of the brick is transformed into a universal geometric space. It goes beyond both light and wind which is simple aesthetics sense. It is an easy to understand building where the brick wall does not give the sense of solidity but is gives the surface homogeneous of sunlight. -- ArchDaily

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Siemens Hengelo, Laan Hart van Zuid, Hengelo, The Netherlands, 2012 designed by NL Architects

Hart van Zuid is an industrial area in city of Hengelo. The district is located south of the train station, right in the heart of the city. The area is defined by the typical emblem of 20th century production: the saw-tooth shed. By ‘flipping’ the existing horizontal tissue to an upright position a strangely familiar office building comes into being. The Siemens office basically is a vertical version of the sheds that are at its base. The saw-tooth roof lights turn into glamorous windows. The protruding elements that frame the tilted windows provide a form of sun protection. From the inside the principle works as a visor. The slanted windows reduces glare. And reflections. Like Traffic Control Towers, these offices will have an optimized view. -- ArchDaily

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Multi-generational: Living at Mühlgrund, Vienna, Austria, 2012 designed by ARTEC Architekten

The Vienna rapid-transit line known as U2 originates at Karlsplatz and heads north, crossing the Danube. Parallel and to the south of the elevated tracks, at a distance of 8 to 12 metres from them, is the site of the 7-storey, 90-metre-long, 15-metre-wide building – the allowable massing determined by an urban design competition. ....a vertically kinked skin directs and diffuses the light, and toward the top, combined with a metal wall perforated with window openings, cloaks the building’s ends and the elevation facing the rapid-transit line. This creates a hall within the thermal building envelope (constructed in the passive-house energy standard) with distinctive characteristics: long, narrow and high, with varying incidence of light and a variety of spatial experiences. -- ArchDaily

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FECHAC Regional Office, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, 2012 designed by Grupo ARKHOS

First the values that shaped the Community Foundation, which are these four: Giving, Subsidiarity, Solidarity, and Common Good. These four values are represented on the four tessellated aluminum panel volumes that make the area of the building that holds the offices, these volumes are as if they have always being there, they are permanent, unmovable, they don’t change, like four giant stone blocks. -- ArchDaily

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Extension Railway Service Facility, Herdern, Switzerland, 2013 designed by EM2N

....a three dimensional modulation of the façade. The curvature of the fiber cement elements frees the endless façade from its flat monotony and renders a play of light and shadow. The modulation extends across several elements to form a pattern that fits the enormous size of the building. -- ArchDaily