Comments on: Jean Nouvel’s Stunning Museum Façade Dilates to Let in Daylight

By: Foster + Partners' Carbon Neutral Masdar City Rises in the Desert | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:48:37 +0000

[...] buildings are clad in an undulating terra-cotta-like latticework based on traditional Arabic mashrabiya screens that mimic an architectural vocabulary indigenous to the area. The recently completed area, [...]

By: mmacdonald

mmacdonald — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:13:03 +0000

no it doesn’t (and hasn’t for 20+ years).

By: Nennesse

Nennesse — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:32:05 +0000

Beautiful indeed, but has never operate properly. For years, “does it work” was areccurent question to M. Nouvel in any conferences.

By: Green Roof City is a Giant Vegetated Ramp for Chicago | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:39:01 +0000

[...] student housing will be located at the southern end of the site. Rotating timber screens on the façade will provide both privacy and shade. The screens also add to the aesthetic quality of the structure [...]

By: doniat

doniat — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:02:23 +0000

First of all, i’m french, so my english may be not perfectly correct.
I know and i like this building. The fact is, when it was built, poeple wanted to see the windows system moving. So Mr Nouvel can’t use his concept perfectly to control lightness and heat. But, maybe today, this mobile system is realy operating in the right way, to save energy.