Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

To best complete the Tel Aviv University Campus, while responding to the complex and technical brief established by the needs of the Nano Center, we imagined a building of great simplicity. The premise is to forge a new kind of iconography - one based on innovative building performance and coherent with the massing and appearance of nearby buildings.

The design seeks an interplay between the element common to nanoscience and architecture: SCALE. The building shell is a matrix of repetitive, vertical lines creating a filter around the building but without any traditional scale, such as windows or doors: a geometric landscape subtly inflected by a ripple of organic undulations.

This second skin is a kind of exoskeleton controlling the sunlight and the relationship between the inside and the outside. This shape expresses a building dedicated to what is infinitely small. It is dedicated to our future, a precise geometry making an iconic architecture beyond scale.

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