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| Source: Jonathan Wallen archdaily.com |
The New 42nd Street Studios, New York City, New York, USA, 2000 designed by Platt Byard Dovell White Architects
In place of the conventional illuminated signage called for by the 42nd Street redevelopment project, the Studio Building’s façade is a collage of metal and glass, with sun-catching dichroic glass at the base, a 175 foot high-tech vertical LightPipe and an array of perforated metal blades presenting an infinitely variable display of colored light projected from ranks of programmable theatrical fixtures. Behind the blades, the transparent glass of the building adds the animation of the lights of the studios and the actual movements of the dancers at work and at the barres. -- ArchDaily
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Wessex, Water Operations Center, Bath, UK, 2000 designed by Bennett Architects
The building is organized as a series of three south-facing office wings off a central 'street' containing shared and social functions. Each south face has a steel and aluminum brise soleil for sun shading and daylight redirection. The office spaces are naturally centilated via operable windows and use exposed thermal mass to help moderate the interior temperature. During summer months the thermal mass is naturally ventilated during night hours to remove excess heat. -- betterbricks.com
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Radio Nacional de España Headquarters, Barcelona, Spain, 2007 designed by Ravetllat-Ribas
The façade has a unique modular system capable to provide thickness to the envelope and to incorporate elements for solar light control. That module also involves the solution for the interior screens, dividing the different programs. A service footbridge for cleaning and maintenance covers the perimeter of the four sides of the building, acting also as “brise-soleil” on the required parts. We searched to give natural illumination to every space. -- ArchDaily
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The new addition to the Cambridge Public Library, opened in October 2009, was a LEED Silver building designed by William Rawn Associates based in Boston. It received the 2010 Harleston Parker Medal for the "Single Most Beautiful Building" built in the metropolitan Boston area in the past 10 years, from the Boston Society of Architects. Article from Architectural Record in October 2010.
a double-wall assembly, 180 feet long and 42 feet tall, with an outer skin of 1/2-inch tempered low-iron glass and an inner, thermally broken skin of 1-inch IGUs. The two layers define a 3-foot-wide, two-story cavity that serves as a thermal flue: Depending on the season, louvers at the top and bottom of the wall can be opened or closed, to vent or to warm the air within. -- Architectural Record July 2010.Read a post from ArchDaily
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Learning Spring School, New York City, New York, USA, 2010 designed by Platt Byard Dovell White Architects
To protect the façades of the building from the unobstructed southeast exposure to the sun, and to provide a valuable visual buffer from the busy intersection, the building is draped with an aluminum and stainless steel sunscreen supported by an external steel armature. Behind is an aluminum, glass and zinc curtain wall. Flanking the adjacent buildings to the north and west and extending along the base of the building is a terracotta rainscreen. Between the two systems is a vertical band of tubular channel glass marking important circulation spaces within. The resulting architecture provides a welcoming and dignified representation of a group of children and their educators long underserved by the city’s schools. -- ArchDaily
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Police Headquarters, Granada, Spain, 2010 designed by Juan Alberto Morillas Martín
....large expanses of glass allow as much natural light capture as possible and a system of tall, wide aluminum slats are vertically positioned to prevent direct entrance of sunlight. These blades are motorized and operate with a solar sensor system that controls the orientation of these blades, changing the image of the building continuously. An automated system regulates the artificial lighting and the movement of the slats. In the exterior, opaque surfaces, a ventilated façade is achieved by employing a highly finished natural limestone. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: José Hevia archdaily.com |
School Isabel Besora, Tarragona, Spain, 2012 designed by NAM Arquitectura
The whole building is constructed with concrete and formwork wooden tablet (vertical and horizontal). Once posed this simple and basic structure , the construction is completed by the use of glass as an enclosure in various sizes and finishes , and the vertical steel trusses of dark gray that allow entry and control of light in classrooms and other spaces . -- ArchDaily
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Tecnova Headquarters, Parque Científico Tecnológico de Almería, Spain designed by Ferrer Arquitectos
These building are laid out according to a strip arrangement, creating an ordered and functional design which sets out clear entrances and highly versatile, multi-purpose spaces. There is a main communications strip, which is the backbone of the design, created as a glazed area with climbing vegetation and scattered courtyards that provide interesting sequences for the visitor/user. -- ArchDaily
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Zhengzhou Greenland Plaza, Zhengzhou, Henan, China, 2013 designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill
The 2.59-million-square-feet (240,169-square-meters) building houses a mixed-use program of offices on its lower floors and a 416-key hotel above. Daylighting was a key driver of the building’s design. Sophisticated three- to five-story-tall light-gauge painted aluminum screens are configured at an outward cant that enhances interior daylighting through scientifically calculated reflections while protecting the all-glass exterior from solar gain. The screens provide multiple performance and aesthetic-related roles. The same outward cant that aids daylighting allows for a nuanced approach to artificial lighting, providing outboard locations for dramatic nighttime lighting of the building that make the tower a beacon. -- ArchDailyRead an article from Architectural Record
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University of Queensland Global Change Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 2013 designed by HASSELL
The GCI Building also represents the first Australian use of structural Geopolymer concrete, a low-carbon product produced with significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions than conventional concrete. The building features an operable sun shading system that tracks the sun and protects the glass louvres which encourage natural ventilation. The air flows across occupied spaces to the central atrium which acts as the building’s lungs, discharging warm air through its thermal chimney. -- ArchDaily
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LoMa Chapalita, Guadalajara, JAL, Mexico, 2013 designed by Elías Rizo Architects
The office levels are wrapped in a double skin that works for sunlight control and natural ventilation. The passive systems aim to take advantage of Mexico’s temperate weather. The inner layer in this double skin is made of floor-to-ceiling sliding glass panels. The outer layer is made up of vertical mesh louvers made of perforated aluminum. The translucent panels can be freely adjusted to aid in controlling sunlight incidence on the office space. The movement of the exterior louvers will grant the building dynamic component and a constantly changing façade that answers to the specific needs of temperature and ventilation control. -- ArchDaily
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Healthcare Center and Regional Government Offices, Cuenca, Spain, 2013 designed by BAT
The facade of this building is surrounded by a skin made of slats that fulfils a double function; climatic and lighting control. Those slats are adjustable so they can work properly, independently of the season of the year or the orientation. Behind those slats it has been placed a second skin with storage capacity and big modulated panes of glass, to offer multiple choices of inner redistribution, without affecting in any way the correct building operation. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Takuji Shimmura archdaily.com |
Mantois Technology Centre, Pole DD – IUT Mantes-en-Yvelines, 78200 Mantes-la-Jolie, France, 2013 designed by Badia Berger Architectes
The mineral-like quality and irregular apertures of the horizontal volume contrasts with the vertical volume suspended above the balcony, with its façade dressed in long thin timber profiles. This strong visual element placed on the corner signifies the square’s fringe. Two envelopes, both sensitive to their environment, offer very different solutions to protect the interior of the building: the timber profiles create a vertical dynamic, while the horizontal element clad in self-levelling concrete addresses the horizontality. -- ArchDaily
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