Federation of Industries

Notes

Two walls hang on the building as superimposed layers.
The superimposed wall to left is smaller and simpler, with one puncture at which a balcony is projected paralleling another balcony on the same floor. Beneath the two balconies, an ensemble of elongated arched openings crowned with protruding heads occupies the façade.
The right wall is contrastingly larger and more animated with various punctures from some of which the concrete balconies hang. The punctures and balconies arrangement is a reflection of the functional needs within the building.
Between these superimposed walls hanging on either side of the facade and through their punctures, the wall of the building beneath is shown with a playful distribution of diverse balconies cased with arched protrusions.

Notable is the use of yellow brick on the superimposed walls differentiated from the white mosaic materiality of the wall beneath of the building.

Sources

Chadirji, Rifaat, Al-Ukhaider and the Crystal Palace, London: Riad El-Rayyes Books Ltd, 1991, pp. 277-280

Chadirji Foundation for Architecture and Society

Caecilia Pieri

Process Architecture, n° 58: Medinat al Salam 1979-1983, Tokyo, May 1985 p. 141

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