- Sector: Corporate / Commercial
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Architect/Specifier: Renzo Piano
- Product(s): Solar Control Roller Shades
Famed architect Renzo Piano created yet another memorable design with Aurora Place, whose elegant, curving shafts grace the skyline of Sydney. This commercial, mixed-use project, when it opened five years ago, broke ground in key sustainable concepts such as natural lighting and ventilation. And it's still ahead of its time.
Piano's concept reinvented how towers function and the way people work within them. For example, the curved building is largely ventilated naturally, with operable glass louvers at apartment balconies, as well as in the winter gardens used as breakout space for office tenants. A double-glass skin technology, using ceramic fitted low-iron glass, allows maximum views and daylighting inside while stabilizing interior temperatures. Also controlling sunlight is an automated system of Nysan roller shades by Hunter Douglas Contract.
Piano's concept reinvented how towers function and the way people work within them. For example, the curved building is largely ventilated naturally, with operable glass louvers at apartment balconies, as well as in the winter gardens used as breakout space for office tenants. A double-glass skin technology, using ceramic fitted low-iron glass, allows maximum views and daylighting inside while stabilizing interior temperatures. Also controlling sunlight is an automated system of Nysan roller shades by Hunter Douglas Contract.
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