New WHO headquarter extension by Paolo Venturella Architecture

New WHO headquarter extension
New WHO headquarter extension
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The conception of the building starts from the consideration that architecture can not be designed anymore by a single “one move” since it is generating a new worldwide series of almost boring “tilted/lifted/pushed” standard buildings.

New WHO headquarter extension
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The project investigates how to overcome the simplicity generated by a single “one move” creating instead a simple complexity generated by a combination of “more moves”. The challenge is to read complexity as a unitary and coherent design generating a synthesis of a series of deformations.

New WHO headquarter extension
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The new approach based on “more moves” shapes the building and creates a more complex interior and exterior space and new aesthetics. Moreover this allows to reach a result that really fits with client request and that satisfy all needs.

New WHO headquarter extension
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The generating process of the building pushes itself upward, then realizes an operation of discretization, then bends in different directions, then a further discretization.

New WHO headquarter extension
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The operation of discretization provides architectonic shapes to design the building, the bending moves create entrances and views, the further discretization generates terraces.

New WHO headquarter extension
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The façade system is oriented on 3 different directions so the louvers are organized according to sun exposure, doubling their distances from south to west, to avoid direct lighting into office spaces.

New WHO headquarter extension
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On the south side it is less dense since the sun is more vertical, while on the west side it is more dense since sun rays are lower. A sum of moves is needed to reach a synthesis ..PLUS IS MORE! Source by Paolo Venturella.

New WHO headquarter extension
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Location: Geneve, Switzerland
Architect: Paolo Venturella Architecture
Project Team: Cosimo Scotucci, Sebastiano Palamara
Status: proposal
Year: 2015
Images: Courtesy of Paolo Venturella

New WHO headquarter extension
Level 0 Floor Plan
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Level 1 Floor Plan
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Level 2 Floor Plan
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Elevation
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Section
New WHO headquarter extension
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