GOR Building

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Project by: Pascal Arquitectos
Location: Mexico City, Mexico

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GOR Building (Pascal Arquitectos)

© Jaime Navarro

Project images

	Original GOR Building © Jaime Navarro View project image
	Façade transformation © Jaime Navarro View project image
	The complete restoration had to be made without emptying the offices © Jaime Navarro View project image
	Effective energy saving façade © Jaime Navarro View project image
	Modern image © Jaime Navarro View project image
	Panoramic view © Jaime Navarro View project image
	In the the vertical joints a common node was utilize © Jaime Navarro View project image
	Laminated glass with a polivinil film © Jaime Navarro View project image
	Oversized wood louvers © Jaime Navarro View project image
	Victoria street view © Jaime Navarro View project image
	Veranda © Jaime Navarro View project image
	Ejército Nacional street view © Jaime Navarro View project image

Architect's statement

The intervention in this 25 years 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 high effective energy saving façade was adapted. The target was to restore the building with a modern image with the evident utilization of new technologies.

Logistics were very complex because the complete restoration had to be made without emptying the offices. Physical determining factors were sort out building an hermetic façade and placing a double aluminum façade with horizontal melaminized oversized wood louvers that blocks the sunlight, and laminated glass with a polivinil film in order to fulfill the thermo-acoustic requirements.

These louvers where set up over the aluminum contours anchored in the structure by steel cantilevers, with 1.22 m distance from the façade.

In the the vertical joints a common node was utilize in order to ease to the displacement of each part and to absorbe, at the same time, the movements generated by earthquakes or by the building natural auto-compression.

On the main floor, in a section of the ground that was practically given away to the public way, a veranda was built achieving the integration of the level and transforming it into a private and commercial area.

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