Published: Friday, August 31, 2007
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[Left] Original GOR Building. [Right] Facade transformation.
"The intervention in this 25 year old building ascribes to the damaged materials and the necessity to keep up with the new thermo-acoustic requirements of the area. To accomplish this objective a passive but highly effective energy saving facade was adapted. The target was to restore the building with a modern image with the evident utilization of new technologies."

[Left] The complete restoration had to be made without emptying the offices. [Right] Utilization of new technologies.

Veranda.
"Logistics were very complex because the complete restoration had to be made without emptying the offices. Physical factors were sorted out by building a hermetic facade; and placing a double aluminum facade with horizontal melaminized oversized wood louvers that block the sunlight, and laminated glass with a polyvinyl film in order to fulfill the thermo-acoustic requirements."
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