The environmental protection agency of Germany built a new headquarters in Dessau in 1995. This new green building was designed to be a model for construction of the future. The building has a concrete frame with a double facade of glass and wood. The colors used on the glass facade were to reflect the surroundings of the building. The glass on the side of the park was green while the glass on the side facing the rest of the city was orange to symbolize the brown and orange brick of houses.
I thought that this play with color started to be interesting, but this use of orange gives the building a sense of being outdated. To me, it seems as if it mimics the patterns of the old housing projects in East Berlin built by the Soviets. However, I really liked the use of natural wood because the exposure of sunlight in different areas created patterns of fading.
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