Photovoltaic facade

AMDL Circle has designed a torus-shaped exhibition building for the pharmaceutical company Novartis on its campus in Basel, Switzerland. The pavilion is enveloped in a complex ‘media facade’ programmed with digital art shows. The zero-energy facade is capable of generating the electricity it consumes, with each of its 10,680 photovoltaic cells containing a layer of organic substrate that converts sunlight into electricity. The Novartis pharmaceutical headquarters is home to 8000 employees as well as the offices, labs, restaurants, cafés and shops that support them. The campus is generously sized with green spaces located along the river Rhine in central Basel. It has been constructed within an urban grid according to a p... More