Vallecas 11 / SOMOS Arquitectos
"Volume fragmentation gives us the chance to develop buildings with enough identity to be recognizable and absorbed in the city’s memory, and to provide visual richness for pedestrian routes. In our case, a first step to fragmentation is given: the plot is a QUARTER of the original block. We decide to continue with this operation dividing the volume in two HALVES held in tension through a void. We characterize the urban IMAGE through the interplay of space and volume, we establish a dialogue with the neighboring buildings through the VIRTUAL VOLUME (previously defined by the height and width scheduled in the urban plan), composed by means of the void which has been incorporated in the overall composition, improving sun exposure and ventilation. Thanks to the great access space which leads into the patio, we make the block PERMEABLE at the spot where public space demands it most (green area in front of the building), at the same time solving the CHAMFER fixed in the urban plan: the sidewalk is integrated and extended under the great overhang. Translucent polycarbonate panels give shape to an homogenous façade that helps to understand the volumes in an abstract way." SOMOS Arquitectos
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City of Arts Ateliers / Lucio Morini
"The building is shaped by a sequence of parallel planes, a U-glass plane towards the south, and a transparent glass façade facing north. The latter is covered by a system of folding, perforated-metal shutters which vary in transparency depending on the light conditions and position; producing variations in the façade pattern."Lucio Morini
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Charles Street Multi-Storey Car Park in Sheffield
"What provides the real interest in the building, however, is the cladding. It forms an uncompromising homogeneous surface to the building’s cubic volume. There is an interesting contradiction here, as when a plain, demure woman wears a glitzy, metallic cocktail dress. The effect makes for a bold architectural statement.
The building derives its visual frisson from the exquisite complexity of the cladding. Perhaps the apparent randomness in the panel arrangement is generated by a clever computer algorithm, but in fact each individual panel is identical; it is simply rotated in one of four orientations. This expresses the contemporary manufacturing concept of using simple rule sets to create bespoke mass production. The panels are of cut and folded aluminium plate based on a 1.2-metre grid. On the inside, they are painted a lime green, while outside they have a silver anodized finish. Each panel’s tilt creates an opening of about 30 per cent of its area, which allows for natural cross-ventilation while keeping out most of the rain. The views in and out are likewise restricted by this arrangement, giving the viewer the occasional interesting vista.Each of the 3,692 cladding panels hooks on to a simple external framing system that connects the floors. This means that the cladding panels do not express the underlying superstructure of the building, a decision that allows the purely abstract sculptural quality of the volume to dominate. Glazed curtain wall panels of varying degrees of opacity clad the ground-floor retail areas, giving this elegant and sophisticated addition to the architecture of Sheffield a svelte finish at street level." Christopher Croazzo Hill
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