Office Building and Logistic Center / modostudio / The Superslice

Here is a simple office building with a resonant facade. The frontage is composed of a series of pop-out window panels. It is was recently built in Nola, Italy and designed by modostudio.

Megan Jett from ArchDaily:

The project is located in a strategic industrial area, well connected with the main highway which bring traffic from the north to the south part of Italy. The site area is highly visible from the highway, and the client requests were to create a very strong and recognizable facade

Due to the fact that the structure and the main envelope was made of precast concrete, we designed the main façade with the idea of pushing at the extreme value the use of the concrete. Reinforced concrete panels with a rhomboidal pattern in different sizes characterizes the main facade. These concrete panels are fixed to the main structural façade through a steel frame system. The panels are of 4 different sizes. The position and the rotation of the panels give to the facade a various image. The windows are realized opening a side of the panels which are connected with the main structural envelope through metal sheet plates.

The main façade, is realized with these particular panels on the first floor, while on the ground floor the façade is a continuous glass curtain wall.with strong low emission value able to give the best comfort inside the office. All the other side of the building are made by precast concrete panels with a vertical texture. The loading and unloading gates will be covered with a metal roof totally integrated in the precast concrete structure.

Photographs by Julien Lanoo