The corporate office of car dealership Wearnes Automotive, it is nine storeys tall and is wrapped with a distinctive exterior veil made up of modules of a W-shaped motif, subtly alluding to the company’s first initial.
MULTI-FUNCTIONAL ENVELOPE
Beyond its aesthetic quality, the veil acts as a shield against the sun thanks to its angled fins. It also conceals a series of mechanical system outlets.
Made up of custom-extruded aluminium for its durability and easy maintenance, it also has a porosity that allows for more than three-quarters of the building to be naturally ventilated.
Pencil Office’s lead designer Erik L’Heureux explains how when he first started on the project, the façade “was a mess of complicated and contradicting factors”.
“We quickly realised that the best way to control this was to have two facades: an exterior one that operates as a screen and camouflage minimising heat gain to the building proper, and an internal facade that would resolve all of the performance requirements,” L’Heureux says.
“Because of these complicated factors, we developed a W-shape for the exterior veil that moves vertically and horizontally across the building. I have been working with ideas of veils for some time now, and I reached into my previous research and adapted that for this building.”
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