Angular timber stairway. Astellas Offices - Mirai House, Leiden, Netherlands. Architect: UNStudio, 2013.
The new laboratory and offices for the Japanese firm Astellas houses both offices and laboratories. Essential to the design of the building is the creation of a pleasant, open and transparent working environment for Astellas employees, in addition to an agreeable and welcoming gesture to their international visitors. Glass facades are employed to provide sufficient daylight, whilst also creating open visual communication throughout the structure. The building frame integrates into one gesture three sections of varying heights, which together encircle an inner courtyard garden. The floor plans in the interior are flexible and based on the campus concept. Glass and aluminium are the main materials used in the façade in order to provide a lightweight structure. Lamellas are incorporated on each level of the façade in order to deflect direct sunlight whilst colour is introduced into the façade by means of a vertical variation in the four contrasting tones of the Japanese Manga animation.
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