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BUTTERFLIES FACADE_LIGINI'S TOWER

Posted on: 27 January 2015
By: Mabel Sorrentino

The inspiration for the shading system used for the floor 3A of the Ligini’s tower comes from a JSWD Architekten project for the Thyssenkrupp Quarter in Essen. The main feature that impressed me was the possibility of the facade to change according to the sun.

So, even if in that case this was an office building, I tought I could adapt this idea to my residential plan project for the Ligini’s tower.

In my mind the triangular shading panel should be moved across the rail and rotate around the mullions manually, so this could be suitable with the residential use better than an automatic system.

So, in order to show which the final effect was, I shaped several families. These families could be gathered into three main groups.

Each group is differentiated from the others for the material used for panel. Furthermore each group of panels consists of four families and each family represent the maximum or minimum rotation of the panel’s group.

In particular:

The first group of panels was the less darkening one. This group of panel is made of white oak wood and each panel of the group can rotate 90° from the closed position to the open position.

The second group is made of red oak wood, each panel can rotate 60° from the closed position to the open position. This group is the medium darkening one.

The third and last group is made of teak wood, the panels can rotate 45° and they are the most darkening type.

Then, in order to make it clear that the panels were movable, I shaped three different mullions which each panel was joined to.

To shape each panel and mullion I started from an extrusion. For the panels I drawn the holes and I assigned to each one a reference plane in order to control the gap with a parameter.

At last I shaped the main mullion which have to join to the main structure of the Ligini’s tower and that one every family of the shading system was connected to.