A seventies office building next door to a bank with office use was purchased by a holding company for renovation. It was not possible to retrofit the structure due to legal issues, but lightening the building was put on the agenda as the only possible solution, which led to removing the blocks from the ceilings and reducing the thickness of the flooring, and moving the main facade. And also we succeeded
To prevent producing 90% of construction waste from the building’s structure.
Considering the view from the inside, it is pointless to provide an open facade because the conditions outside are disappointing and every moment the building becomes more closed with the surrounding density, therefore a second perforated aluminum skin facade is employed, which is also a part of the interior design and it reducing the air conditioning load, eliminates the need for curtains, and cleaning the glasses and maintaining windows was intended.
The second skin and the corridor behind it are the boundaries between the building and the city, and it is constantly changing. It is solid and impenetrable during the day, and at night it is a semi-transparent source that transmits light and illuminates the surroundings and inside. The space between two shells has different conditions than the inside and the outside, and it is the growth medium for plants that are suitable for semi-shade conditions. Therefore, the semi-open space around the plan is the source of producing various conditions and images inside and outside and is a place to experience semi-open space in the vicinity of the office space.
The original structure has been used without tampering. The majority of renovation interventions are white and A temporal duality of what was and is flows in the space.