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VISION 21 — ARTGLASS
A challenge for all developers is the volume of
apartments flooding the market. How do you give your
project the genuine signature, rather than applied logo?
Is this a major consideration?
It’s uppermost in our minds. Any development we work
on demands a design with a distinctive difference to help
with the marketing. We don’t rely purely on the external
aesthetic so much as a combination of an exterior appeal
fully supported by its quality interior fitout and internal
ambience.
Is this design more the introvert, or extrovert?
A combination of both! The whole package is alive during
daylight hours with that glass facade responding to the
changing light and taking on a whole new appearance
of an evening. The contemporary interiors are befitting
of the area.
What was behind your decision to provide this specific
glass identity of patterned seraphic?
The glass facade against a traditional fit, provides a very
modern architectural aesthetic. It gives the distinctive
contrast that respects the heritage building. The two
read quite independently of each other, yet are not
competing. In glass, there is the reflective element, but in
this particular case, what we have chosen is to use glass
as a cladding system, because the seraphic glass in this
facade is not transparent.
It’s essentially curtain wall?
Yes it is. All the apartments have windows that are easy
to access for light and ventilation and comprise a Viridian
clear glass. That remains a constant throughout the
building, yet the skin is very much a cutting edge system,
derived from a commercial curtain wall application.
WE WANTED A STRONG
COUNTERPOINT TO
COMPLEMENT THE OLD,
HERITAGE BUILDING.
GLASS IMMEDIATELY
CAME TO MIND.
Robert Ficarra, Architect