Green Life Headquarter

The result is an airy and light building envelope which playfully conceals how large the buildings are due to the hardly recognizable floors. As a reinterpretation of the strictly linear facades of Vico Magistretti's existing buildings, the new ceramic shell creates a pleasantly uniform image on the campus in addition. This is not least due to the comparable colour and surface qualities: Magistretti used ochre bricks, and the architects of the Frigerio Design Group chose unglazed ceramic tiles of the KeraTwin system in the colour Natura 412 (salmon).
At second glance, regularities can be seen in the gently undulating sea of window and ceramic strips: on the one hand, recurring component dimensions suggest a strict building grid; on the other hand, vertical joints running through the entire height indicate the prefabrication of large facade elements. All essential building dimensions are based on the basic dimension of 180 cm - the column spacing and floor heights as well as the size of the facade elements. In view of the 180 cm wide and 360 cm high prefabricated elements and the architect's wish for narrow horizontal formats underlining the horizontal, the KeraTwin facade tiles have the size of 90 x 20 cm.