A slender prism of steel and glass rises in parallel to the eastern line of trees, establishing a precise dialogue with the existing landscape. Its placement deliberately releases the southern edge, allowing sunlight to penetrate deeply into the heart of the plot. The construction of this prism becomes a didactic instrument, articulating questions of gravity, weight, matter, and light.
Mechanical and electrical systems, essential to the building’s metabolism, emerge onto the façade with the same clarity and dignity as offices and meeting rooms, dissolving hierarchies between served and servant spaces.
The vertical forces that sustain the building are inscribed directly onto the plane of the façade, which operates as a graphic register of structural effort alongside the shifting silhouettes of the treetops. Transparency is not fixed but contingent, as each section of the façade modulates its opacity in response to interior light conditions, the passage of time, and the preferences of its occupants. In this way, the envelope becomes an active and responsive interface, an atmospheric membrane that negotiates between interior life and the exterior environment.
To the south of the glass prism, at the center of the complex, a garden is proposed as a field of interwoven geometries, directly connected to the surrounding open spaces of the site. It allows the ensemble to be understood as a vegetal campus, where architecture and landscape coexist in a continuous system. Its intentions are disarmingly simple yet spatially profound: to invite sunlight into its depths, to allow linden trees and flowering species to coexist, and to enable users to traverse it with ease, inhabiting a space where nature and architecture are inseparably entwined.
