WILLIAM RAPPARD CENTRE EXTENSION . Geneva
photos: LAN . Rsi-studio.com
The challenge of the project of William Rappard center expansion lies in the difficulty to integrate at once an exceptional landscape context, and an existing pronounced architectural style, as well as to be able to answer the functional demands of the competition.
We have chosen to locate the new building as far as possible from the old one, thus avoiding the relationship of visual continuity, the new architectural design being independent.
The connection between the two buildings will be made light and transparent.
This choice is justified by the necessity to maintain natural light in the southern offices of the existing building.
Outside:
Architecture merges into the landscape.
A design made by lightness, thanks to glazing surfaces and finely textured steel. This is the type of design that blurs the tangible limits of the building, making a solid reading of the volume unnecessary, creating a soft and evanescent image.
Facades define themselves by two glass layers, each one answering to specific needs and at the same time completing the other one.
The first fine glass skin is covered with a screen-printing film reflecting the vegetation surrounding the site and creating an effect of visual penetration.
The second "thick" facade meets thermal performance needs.
Space between the two allows us to insert a second obscuration system for south facades in summer time.
Inside this green frame, everything is overlaid, transparent, reflecting. Everything is light and character.
Inside:
Landscape penetrates into architecture.
A rich, diversified and flexible interior is opposed to the simplicity and compactness of the exterior volume.
At first we worked to define the pixel sizing of the first glazed frame to have a landscape maximal legibility since workspaces. Then we set up several devices allowing landscape to penetrate directly into the cone, the terraces, the common spaces facades and the double heights surfaces.
Our aim was to design a flexible and compact building, a place based on the pleasure to belong to an elaborated visual world where the quality of sights and lights becomes a work fulfilment.
Common spaces are generously sized and different in every floor.
Circulation areas are also generous and naturally enlightened by the presence of the light cone, the patio and the light openings of the two levels outside terraces.
The offices built on the periphery allow a flexibility of organization. In our planning offer we decided to design the big offices (30 & 25 m²) at the corners of the building.
The architectural, environmental and economic approach, associated with the will to realize a building proposing wide trays of superstructure confers an indispensable flexibility to the functioning and future evolution of the building.
The challenge of the project of William Rappard center expansion lies in the difficulty to integrate at once an exceptional landscape context, and an existing pronounced architectural style, as well as to be able to answer the functional demands of the competition.
We have chosen to locate the new building as far as possible from the old one, thus avoiding the relationship of visual continuity, the new architectural design being independent.
The connection between the two buildings will be made light and transparent.
This choice is justified by the necessity to maintain natural light in the southern offices of the existing building.
Outside:
Architecture merges into the landscape.
A design made by lightness, thanks to glazing surfaces and finely textured steel. This is the type of design that blurs the tangible limits of the building, making a solid reading of the volume unnecessary, creating a soft and evanescent image.
Facades define themselves by two glass layers, each one answering to specific needs and at the same time completing the other one.
The first fine glass skin is covered with a screen-printing film reflecting the vegetation surrounding the site and creating an effect of visual penetration.
The second "thick" facade meets thermal performance needs.
Space between the two allows us to insert a second obscuration system for south facades in summer time.
Inside this green frame, everything is overlaid, transparent, reflecting. Everything is light and character.
Inside:
Landscape penetrates into architecture.
A rich, diversified and flexible interior is opposed to the simplicity and compactness of the exterior volume.
At first we worked to define the pixel sizing of the first glazed frame to have a landscape maximal legibility since workspaces. Then we set up several devices allowing landscape to penetrate directly into the cone, the terraces, the common spaces facades and the double heights surfaces.
Our aim was to design a flexible and compact building, a place based on the pleasure to belong to an elaborated visual world where the quality of sights and lights becomes a work fulfilment.
Common spaces are generously sized and different in every floor.
Circulation areas are also generous and naturally enlightened by the presence of the light cone, the patio and the light openings of the two levels outside terraces.
The offices built on the periphery allow a flexibility of organization. In our planning offer we decided to design the big offices (30 & 25 m²) at the corners of the building.
The architectural, environmental and economic approach, associated with the will to realize a building proposing wide trays of superstructure confers an indispensable flexibility to the functioning and future evolution of the building.
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