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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. New Headquarters of SPG Société Privée de Gérance in Geneva, Swizterland by Giovanni Vaccarini ArchitettiAugust 31st, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Giovanni Vaccarini Architetti The project for the new Headquarters of SPG in Geneva starts with the adaptive reuse of a pre-existing building to which we added to extra floors and a new facade. The quality of the workspaces was the central theme for us, which led us to completely redesign the exterior facade of the building.
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 Image Courtesy © Adrien Buchet  Image Courtesy © Adrien Buchet The new envelope consists of a first layer of triple-pane glass. A fourth glass layer contains the micro-punctured blinds to adjust natural lighting; screen-printed glass brise-soleil screens are anchored to the outside. The glass fins, placed perpendicular to the facade, come in three dimensions (20, 40 and 60 cm) and are spaced apart with varying distances, defining the entire facade. This whole system occupies a total thickness comprised between 40 and 80 cm.  Image Courtesy © Adrien Buchet  Image Courtesy © Adrien Buchet A “thick surface” that, starting from the design of the exterior envelope of the building, becomes the very body of architecture. A geometric system that, starting from the design of the glass fins, reverberates onto the interiors, the functional layout, the geometric pattern of the flooring made of local stone from Vals with stainless steel inserts.  Image Courtesy © Adrien Buchet  Image Courtesy © Adrien Buchet First essential requirements for the project have been to guarantee a good level of protection from the sunlight while, at the same time, not to limit the view from the inside outwards. Our solution was about implementing a stratified glass panel, finding a balance between the shading capacity of screen printing and their permeability to vision.  Image Courtesy © Adrien Buchet  Image Courtesy © Giovanni Vaccarini Architetti The glass fins shape a “nebulous” envelope, that marks out multiple reflections and transparencies. During nighttime the glass fins are enlightened by white leds and transform the building into a kind of urban lamp.  Image Courtesy © Giovanni Vaccarini Architetti  Image Courtesy © Giovanni Vaccarini Architetti I think the result is extraordinary, in the literal sense of the term (out of ordinary.) A simple system that, when reiterated, produces a complex multiplication of visions, both on the inside and on the outside of the building; a kinetic architecture.  Image Courtesy © Giovanni Vaccarini Architetti  Image Courtesy © Giovanni Vaccarini Architetti  Image Courtesy © Giovanni Vaccarini Architetti  Image Courtesy © Giovanni Vaccarini Architetti  Image Courtesy © Giovanni Vaccarini Architetti
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