Modern Architecture

Modern architecture is something I really enjoy!
Luckily for me here in the Netherlands we have several beautiful offices and buildings that are designed to perfection.

The MIRAI house, designed by UNStudio.

A beautiful building, housing both offices and laboratories for a Japanese firm and was completed in 2012.
The thing that attracts me to it is the way the lines flow around the building. The lightweight structure of the glass facade makes it even more appealing in great light.

” Essential to the design of the building is the creation of a pleasant, open and transparent working environment for Astellas employees, in addition to an agreeable and welcoming gesture to their international visitors. The organisation and materialisation of the building ensures clear views from each of the three areas within the main frame. Glass facades are employed to provide sufficient daylight, whilst also creating open visual communication throughout the structure. The building frame integrates into one gesture three sections of varying heights, which together encircle an inner courtyard garden.”

Glass and aluminium are the main materials used in the façade of the building in order to provide a lightweight structure which requires less material usage in its foundations. Lamellas are incorporated on each level of the façade in order to deflect direct sunlight whilst colour is introduced into the façade by means of a vertical variation in the four contrasting tones of the Japanese Manga animation films.