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Project • By Barberio Colella Architetti • Offices
Bamboo Office
In the Wujin Green Industrial District in Changzhou, the Chinese authorities organised the 1st International Green/Ecological Building Competition (IGEBC) to build a model neighbourhood of sustainable buildings. Barberio Colella Architetti, in collaboration with Angelo Figliola, won Lot 14 with a proposal that overturns the conventional relationship between building and nature: instead of adding greenery as decoration, they make it the heart of the bioclimatic system.
The design strategy stems from a precise observation: in conventional office buildings, workers lose all sense of time and the seasons. BCA’s solution is a fifteen-metre-high double-skin facade of structural glass, within which a continuous line of living bamboo grows.... More
Project • By Nimbus Group • Offices
Südwestmetall office
A switch is not absolutely necessary to light up a room. It is perfectly possible without – as Nimbus demonstrates in the new building of the Neckar-Fils regional arm of the Südwestmetall employers' association in Esslingen. The light activates itself autonomously – but only when necessary – in this markedly transparent building with its sweeping form. The architect was also convinced by the formal aspects of the Nimbus luminaires.
We are often surprised to find that a difficult piece of building land need not present an obstacle to outstanding architecture. Esslingen am Neckar is a case in point. Not far from Stuttgart, in the booming Mittlerer Neckar region, Esslingen is currently undergoing a transformation in terms of urban planning... More