STACK EFFECT

摘要

Shard-like all-glass cladding, picked out with metal detailing in the form of brise-soleil or solar panels, the latter, along with the facade’s double skin, helping to keep the Tribunal’s energy consumption to 50kWh/ ms/year. In addition to being terrorist-proofed, ‘the facade is extremely changeable, sometimes reflective, sometimes transparent, according to the weather and the time of day’, as Bernard Plattner, RPBW’s lead partner on the project, explains. ‘Add to that the vegetation’ -400 trees, including many oaks, the species under which Louis IX is famously supposed to have pronounced justice at Yincennes - ‘and you escape the gigantism and the syndrome of the monolithic tower.’.