101 Tower

Objective:

The client requested an exterior solution while construction of the building’s lower floors was already underway. We had to suggest an expressive exterior solution offering alternative to the traditional order system featuring pilasters and cornices

Hardships:

• The building’s bulky shape requiring “workout”
• New technical solutions we had to develop
• Fast decisions had to be made as the building’s construction was in full swing

Solutions:

• We decided to make this asymmetric and quite massive building lighter by slightly rounding the external line of the building’s envelope and skew the glazing rising above the building’s roof
• In order to make the building slimmer and visually reduce its volume, white strips have been applied onto façade glazing
• The shift of strips on glazing indicates that the building consists not of one single volume but of two horizontally shifted halves
• To ensure natural ventilation of parking space, we offered a solution of glass panels placed at an angle like blinds

Facts and details:

• Initially, the building was intended to be over 30 storeys
• According to the original project, glazing was designed as a single surface running all the way to the top of the building, but subsequently, design specifications were changed and today, the line where the top part of glazing joins the main volume can be seen on the facade