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Banco Panama
Panama
The project begins with a unique set of circumstances: designing an office building that must place its parking on elevated levels in a context where public space barely holds any value for use, with no capacity to predict its occupants or the division of each floor was not easy.
The need to give the building an attractive contact with the ground is an exercise in urban responsibility.
Programmatically, the section of the tower is organized as the stepped stacking of four independent buildings. The first one welcomes the city on the ground floor with bank offices, above rises a six-floor parking structure. The remaining three are prisms of varying dimensions that set back from the previous one, creating terraces that share different orientations and views over the sea and the Historic Center.
The envelope is resolved with a curtain wall composed of glass in different shades and transparencies, introducing a random and vibrant element in the reading, not only because of the play between apparent opacity and reflection but also because of the scaling ambiguity of the typical element, which does not match any obvious horizontal line of the building. The system naturally incorporates particular cases, such as large carpentry for the terraces, air intake vents for the installation platforms, or the ventilation of the parking area.
The introduction of basic sustainability criteria in a context that is unaware of such matters supports the choice of glass and its nuances, as well as the density of pieces for each transparency according to the orientation.
The need to give the building an attractive contact with the ground is an exercise in urban responsibility.
Programmatically, the section of the tower is organized as the stepped stacking of four independent buildings. The first one welcomes the city on the ground floor with bank offices, above rises a six-floor parking structure. The remaining three are prisms of varying dimensions that set back from the previous one, creating terraces that share different orientations and views over the sea and the Historic Center.
The envelope is resolved with a curtain wall composed of glass in different shades and transparencies, introducing a random and vibrant element in the reading, not only because of the play between apparent opacity and reflection but also because of the scaling ambiguity of the typical element, which does not match any obvious horizontal line of the building. The system naturally incorporates particular cases, such as large carpentry for the terraces, air intake vents for the installation platforms, or the ventilation of the parking area.
The introduction of basic sustainability criteria in a context that is unaware of such matters supports the choice of glass and its nuances, as well as the density of pieces for each transparency according to the orientation.
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