project by Michelangelo Acciaro and Nora Lau
The external skin of the building complex consists in laminated clear and tinted glass panels, featuring mechanisms to filter and exploit the natural daylight entering through 360 degrees. The use of sun as a renewable energy source will increase energy efficiency and reduce reliance on fossil fuel energy. The single glass elements move to create a thermal balance through the managing of solar inputs and natural ventilation in the hot months.
project by Michelangelo Acciaro and Nora Lau
A new external envelope, forming a second building skin, dissolves the classic typology of a high-rise building into an iconic seamless piece and transforms it into a loggia tower. Large scaled glass-fronted cubes mark the tower like giant footsteps ascending the sky and insert multi-layered, intimate green zones. These cubes remeasure the harbour skyline and absorb the critic urban heights of the surrounding building lines.
project by Michelangelo Acciaro and Nora Lau
The interior spaces present themselves in black and white. Two extremes, like the clearly drawn shadows, which characterize the mediterranean. White sheathings diffuse daylight within the internal spaces of the tower, forming a neat canvas for the hourly changing interdependence of light and shadow.
project by Michelangelo Acciaro and Nora Lau
entrance hall
project by Michelangelo Acciaro and Nora Lau
cross section,
ground floor plan,
typical floor plan
project by Michelangelo Acciaro and Nora Lau
Our concept evidences three clear building volumes: the tower, its contrasting 'black child' and the canopied walkway between the two independent building parts, leading to the lateral entrances.
project by Michelangelo Acciaro and Nora Lau
site overview
project by Michelangelo Acciaro and Nora Lau
The skyline of the Piraeus Harbour reveals an accumulation of dissimilar objects. Like a landmark, the Piraeus Tower with its new facade concept shall have a federating role, creating its own distinctive profile within the heterogenous cluster of the urban collage. Walking and recreational spaces between the cement structure and its transparent enclosure offer a direct link to the surrounding city, the harbour and the sea.
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