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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. GOR Building in Av Ejército Nacional, Mexico by Pascal ArquitectosOctober 23rd, 2013 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Pascal Arquitectos The intervention in this 25 years old building ascribes to the damaged materials and the necessity keep up with the new thermo-acoustic requirements of the area. To accomplish this objective a passive but high effective energy saving façade was adapted. The target was to restore the building with a modern image with the evident utilization of new technologies.  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro
 Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro Logistics were very complex because the complete restoration had to be made without emptying the offices. Physical determining factors were sort out buiding an hermetic façade and placing a double aluminum façade with horizontal melaminized oversized wood louvers that blocks the sunlight, and laminated glass with a polivinil film in order to fulfill the thermo-acoustic requirements.  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro These louvers where set up over the aluminum contours anchored in the structure by steel cantilevers, with 1.22 m distance from the façade. In the the vertical joints a common node was utilize in order to ease to the displacement of each part and to absorbe, at the same time, the movements generated by earthquakes or by the building natural autocompression. On the main floor, in a section of the ground that was practically given away to the public way, a veranda was built achieving the integration of the level and transforming it into a private and commercial area.  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro  Image Courtesy © Jaime Navarro  Image Courtesy © Pascal Arquitectos  Image Courtesy © Pascal Arquitectos  Image Courtesy © Pascal Arquitectos  Image Courtesy © Pascal Arquitectos  Image Courtesy © Pascal Arquitectos
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