GLASS FOR FAÇADE 2019

11 SAINT-GOBAIN BUILDING GLASS / 10 / SAINT-GOBAIN BUILDING GLASS SAINT-GOBAIN TOWER The Saint-Gobain Tower is the new headquarters of the Saint-Gobain Group. It was designed by the French Valode & Pistre architectes and built in the high-rise district of La Défense near Paris. The 165 metre high tower has 44 storeys and 49,000 square meters of work space for 2,700 employees. Above the actual office tower rises a multi-storey, transparent cube with interior gardens and conference rooms. A smaller glass cube marks the entrance to the tower and to the Saint-Gobain showroom at the ground floor. Saint-Gobain aimed to achieve an exemplary environmental level for its new headquarters, guaranteeing users the highest standard of comfort with low energy consumption. The construction was completely planned in BIM. Working with a digital model facilitated the complex coordination of the planning process a lot in this building project. The Saint-Gobain Tower is evocating of a crystal, because of its shape and the fact, that the strict, geometrically structured façade is entirely made of glass – with a fine latticework application that winds around the tower like a silver ribbon and conjures up parallelograms on the façade. Naturally Saint-Gobain glass was used for the double façade: COOL-LITE ST BRIGHT SILVER on the outer skin and CLIMAPLUS PLANITHERM XN on the inner skin. COOL-LITE ST BRIGHT SILVER was also used for the shell of the two glass cubes. Built with more than 80 innovative products out of the entire product range of Saint-Gobain Group, the tower serves as a visible showcase to the know-how and product diversity of the internationally active manufacturer of building materials. A CRYSTAL SHOWCASE IN LA DÉFENSE THE SAINT-GOBAIN TOWER IN PARIS WITH COOL-LITE ST BRIGHT SILVER Location Architect Glass processor Façade maker COMMERCIAL OFFICES Paris, France Valode & Pistre, Paris, France Saint-Gobain Glassolutions - Eckelt Glas, Latin, Sivaq, Pietta Metal Yapi, Eiffage Métal, Hefi Fischer © Valode&Pistre Double skin façade with COOL-LITE ST BRIGHT SILVER on the external skin and CLIMAPLUS PLANITHERM XN as internal skin. The top and bottom cubes are with monolithic COOL-LITE ST BRIGHT SILVER. SageGlass Climaplus Classic were used for open- sky space and board room. Product © Valode&Pistre