Description
Architect Rena Sakellaridou realised the eLement office building in the Athens suburb of Marousi in 2022. The property, surrounded by roads on three sides, is bordered by residential houses to the west and an olive grove to the East. A building already existed in the middle of the site, so the new building needed to enclose it in an L-form.
A glass structure covered with a sweeping, overhanging exposed concrete roof guides arrivals to the main building. This four-to fivestorey
building opens up towards the courtyard in a light and ethereal manner. The architect’s basic idea was that the canopies, or projecting floor slabs, “with their sharp corners and soft curves fly, in their continuous movement from floor to floor”. In keeping with this concept, the façades have a transparent design throughout – floor-to-ceiling panes of Saint-Gobain COOL-LITE® XTREME 70/33 II solar control coating, which provide optimal solar protection under even extreme UV conditions,are used. STADIP SILENCE® laminated safety glass provides effective sound insulation against the busy main road.
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COOL-LITE® XTREME 70/33 & 70/33 II
COOL-LITE® XTREME 70/33 and COOL-LITE® XTREME 70/33 II, respectively the annealed and to-be-tempered version of the product are the most transparent and neutral triple silver coating, bringing ample natural light into buildings while blocking two thirds of solar heat.
VETROTECH
Vetrotech Saint-Gobain International AG is a company of the Saint-Gobain Group. Vetrotech specializes in the development, production and distribution of sustainable fire-resistant safety and high-security glasses for the building and marine sectors.
STADIP SILENCE®
STADIP SILENCE® is a laminated safety glass with acoustic performance. It consists of at least two glass sheets bonded together with one or more Polyvinyl Butyral (PVB) including special acoustic PVB interlayer (PVB Silence), providing thus excellent insulation against noise.