assignment 1

Design research on building screens and high-tech facades, intended to give the envelope a distinctive brandimage.

Try to familiarize yourself with the terminologies. As a first step, choose an international recognized building, whose façade works as a brand example & material product example which illustrates best these terms.

Assignment 1.

Required for jan 9:

You are required to give a project report of a building of your choice, which refers to the term building screen as brandimage. Give a short description of its designintent and material use.

Give further the particulars of the exterior facade design and exemplify it with drawings & images in several printed Letter formats (include scaled drawings>elevation, section, details).

Façade Examples SCREEN/ Ornament:

1. Eyebeam Institute – Media Galaxy NYC; Mvrdv (alt. Diller&Scofidio)

2. Beinecke Rare Book Library; Bunshaft

3. Christian Dior Omotesando Store; Sanaa

4. 100 11^th Street NYC; Nouvel

5. John Lewis Department Store; Foa

6. The Atrium at the Federation Square; Lab

7. 127 Madison NYC; Shop

8. Louis Vuitton Roppongi Hills Store; Aoki

9. Louis Vuitton Nagoya Store; Aoki

10. 40 Bond Street NYC; H de M

11. Christian Dior Ginza Store, Inui

12. The Art Wall, Dale Jones Evans

13. 166 Perry Street; Asymptote

14. Boehringer Ingelheim; Sauerbruch Hutton

15. LVMH Osaka; Kengo Kuma

16. Christ Pavillion; Gerkan Marg und Partners

17. 366 W 15^th, Shop

optional

18. (Maison de Verre; Chareau)

19. Sendai Mediatheque, Ito

20. Torre Agbar Headquarters; Nouvel

21. NY Times; Renzo Piano