from Triptyque

” The figure of the sun visor - element traditional of tropical architecture - is in the center of this project. Located in an old district in radical change, on an avenue with the intense traffic, directed full sun, it building wants to be the powerful and organic incarnation urban and natural “aggressions” of the subtropical emergent city.

The project takes the party to nourish interaction of two “aggressions”: Noise and sunning. The noise level of the traffic of the street becomes a powerful atonal symphony with the “helicopter-quartet” of Stockhausen. It carves the frontage of the building: a membrane of sun visor, organics, fluid - which - as under the effect of the waves of sound waves becomes deformed - creating internment of the tablecloths of luminous intensity, and of the different temperatures.

A second filter, on the internal wall in glass, equalizes these differences by plays opaque tablecloths of heat screen printed, exact negative deformation of the breeze. This frontage-membrane is perforated by one “plug” - a concrete framework - connection between the external medium and the interior of the building. The basic frontage, like a partition musical binary - pacified - opens on tropical garden. The three stages are structured by a vertical element extremely: a concrete staircase. Its geometry in plans folded car park with the solarium - connects and form spaces.”

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