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| Source: CHSarquitectos archdaily.com |
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. --
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| Source: Raúl Belinchón archdaily.com |
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. --
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| Source: Hiroshi Ueda archdaily.com |
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. --
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| Source: Darren Soh archdaily.com |
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. --
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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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| Source: Cristián Barahona archdaily.com |
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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| Source: Fernando Alda archdaily.com |
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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| Source: Miran Kambič archdaily.com |
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. --
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| Source: Jeffrey Totaro archdaily.com |
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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| Source: Daniel Schäfer archdaily.com |
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. --
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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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| Source: Stéphane Chalmeau archdaily.com |
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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| Source: Sharon Risedorph archdaily.com |
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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| Source: Jose Campos archdaily.com |
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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| Source: payette archdaily.com |
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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| Source: Matías Pérez Illera archdaily.com |
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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| Source: Pieter Kers archdaily.com |
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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| Source: G.R. Wett archdaily.com |
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. --
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| Source: FG+SG archdaily.com |
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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| Source: Andrés Valbuena archdaily.com |
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. --
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| Source: Archframe archdaily.com |
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. --
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| Source: Patrick Bingham-Hall archdaily.com |
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. --
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| Source: Andrey Ukolov archdaily.com |
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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| Source: Sergio Grazia archdaily.com |
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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| Source: 11h45 archdaily.com |
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. --
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