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The building with the darkest facade ever built
At the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea, there is not only sport to enjoy. Here many of the great architects demonstrate their technical prowess in the different pavilions that have been inaugurated around this international event and, today we have to see … What happens if we use the purest black color as a cladding on the facade of a building? .
British architect Asif Khan's project has surprised half the world with a extremely dark building on its facade (The Hyundai Pavilion with dimensions of 35 x 35 meters in plan), in fact, it has been captured in its exterior facade claddingthe purest black that has never been applied to a building so far thanks to the technical demonstration carried out in collaboration with a nano-scale materials engineering company.
Pure black color for the most modern architecture!
The peculiar material that surrounds the facade is capable of absorbing 99.96% of the light, they call him the Vantablack VBx2. It is so black that a few meters away it is almost impossible for the human eye to perceive the shape of the building. (See article to learn about architecture and color techniques in buildings)
Although it may not seem like it, the building's facade is curved in order to achieve a perfect optical illusion. Composed of small bars that stand out illuminated at the end that simulate stars and the unique material that completely covers the facade.
To get a material so darkMillions of carbon nanotubes have been placed (3,500 times thinner than a human hair, which has the ability to absorb light and dissipate it in the form of heat). Makes it so black, that it is impossible to distinguish the contours!
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To build the pavilion, a steel frame was bolted on site and then clad to create the curved surfaces. Scaffolding was erected around the pavilion and the entire building was covered, creating the right conditions to apply the spray paint. During construction the team had to deal with temperatures between -15 and -25 degrees Celsius.
Access to the pavilion is through a dark corridor that opens into a bright white space covered with solid Corian material. Channels have been carved into its surface as part of a multi-sensory hydrophobic water installation also designed by Khan.
Through a path, visitors walk and interact with sensors that move 25,000 drops of water per minute along the canals, colliding and crossing each other before meeting in their central part in a kind of lake … «the liquid embodies hydrogen on a more human scale, as two hydrogen atoms bond with one oxygen atom to form water. "
The architect hopes that his building will provoke a philosophical experience by presenting visitors with a "void of infinite depth and possibilities." Represents an aesthetic experiment on the movement of Light and Space!
Another article of relevance is that of contract architecture where, thanks to the application of new materials, the urban center of a small town in Germany was changed.
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