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Enel Pavilion, Piuarch
Enel Pavilion, Piuarch
Building Case Studies
650 polycarbonate vectors. Polycarbonates used in engineering are strong, tough materials, and some grades are optically transparent
Red Mirror Strips, Wise Architecture
Red Mirror Strips, Wise Architecture
Building Case Studies
The structure of the building follows the image of the strips. Instead of the general H-shape steel columns, numerous thin hollow steel sections support the building. It is like glazing the mullions to maximize building transparency from the interior. The building consists of many layers of materials: from steel, glass, super mirror strips, red transparent polycarbonate strips, and then back to super mirror strips. These layers make the in-between space of the stair passage fluid and blur its boundaries. They challenge the idea that architecture exists as a rigid structure in solid state.