Fachadas
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Product • By Solaris Architettura • Exterior sun shading facade
Exterior sun shading facade
Exterior roller blinds for sun shading facades. The fabric roll inside an alumium cassette diameter 130 mm and is guided by stainless steel rods diameter 8 mm. The fabric is reinforced with stainless streel bars inside horizontal pocket to increase the wind resistance of the system. More
Project • By Elenberg Fraser • Apartments
A’Beckett Tower
Sitting on a 900sqm block, A’Beckett Tower is a prototype for high-density residual infill. The transition from podium to tower is treated non-traditionally, with a thin veneer of apartments surrounding the carpark, which is accessed via elevators for cars, liberating the street front from ramps.
With 347 louvres in 16 different colours, you could be forgiven for thinking Elenberg Fraser was engaging with the local architectural context with their new building for Pan Urban, A’Beckett Tower. Au contraire, they are exploring the sensory effects of colour, rather than symbolic representation, by testing Goethe’s Theory of Colours.
We are interested in how the body reacts and processes the blended and indistinct colour field, rather than wha... More