The intervention in this 25 years old building
ascribes to the damaged materials and the necessity keep up with the new
thermo-acoustic requirements of the area. To accomplish this objective a
passive but high effective energy saving façade was adapted. The target was to
restore the building with a modern image with the evident utilization of new
technologies.
Logistics were very complex because the compete restoration had to be
made without emptying the offices. Physical determining factors were sort out buiding an hermetic façade and placing
a double aluminum façade with horizontal melaminized oversized wood louvers that blocks the sunlight, and laminated
glass with a polivinil film in order to
fulfill the thermo-acoustic requirements.
These louvers where set up over the aluminum
contours anchored in the structure by steel cantilevers, with 1.22 m distance
from the façade.
In the
the vertical joints a common node was utilize in order to ease to the
displacement of each part and to absorbe, at the same time, the movements
generated by earthquakes or by the building natural autocompression.
On the main floor, in a section of the ground that
was practically given away to the public way, a veranda was built achieving the
integration of the level and transforming it into a private and commercial area.
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