The new facade design creates impressive outlook for half of existing highrise office tower in Hanoi. Added light-weight alluminium skeleton combining with curvy lighting strips running up along tower body are just simple to build, affortdable but outstanding still.

Located in the strategic development center of the city, Tasco Building (Tasco) has become the ideal location for Hanoi offices for domestic multinational companies. This area also has the most office buildings for rent in Nam Tu Liem district. It inherits modern infrastructure, convenient transportation, utility systems and have the opportunity to expand cooperation with the thriving business community.

The architectural has been a site of intensive experimentation and innovation throughout the 20th century, something that continues to this day, resulting in a vast range of architectural imagery, often incohesive in the post-modern reality. This explores contemporary façade types and classifies the character of exterior building surfaces. We adopt a method of analytical induction to extract the most prevalent façade themes from relevant contemporary literature, characterize their meanings and categorize them in order to better explain the many sides of the façade. We set out to define the principles of façade design to then develop a general categorization, which can be applied to most building façades.

This is accomplished by methodically repeating threseparate bent and perforated metal panels into an abstract design that wraps around the building. The result is a dynamic, textured surface that can be felt from below and seen as a bigger graphic reading from a distance. Moving the structure to the outside of the enclosure freed up valuable interior space that would have been occupied by columns and the projecting slabs and columns provide a veil over the all façade and act as a shading device.

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Client: Tasco JSC

Architects: Studio8 VN