In 2019, Saint-Gobain partnered with Greentown’s internal accelerator, Greentown Launch, for the InNOVAte 2019 Challenge. Nai dizajnirani i proizvedeni graevinski materijali, kao i materijali visokih performansi pruaju prava inovativna reenja za sve izazove ekonomskog rasta, energetske efikasnosti i zatite ivotne sredine. Saint-Gobain has numerous employees stationed at the incubator, and often uses Greentown as a living lab to test its materials and products. Saint-Gobain envisions and creates top-of-the-line innovations for habitats that enhance living experiences. Saint-Gobain Life Sciences designs, manufactures and distributes materials and solutions which are key ingredients in the wellbeing of each of us and the future of all. Saint-Gobain je svetski lider u proizvodnji graevinskog materijala i na celom graevinskom tritu. Saint-Gobain’s onsite environmental testing chamber lets Greentown entrepreneurs test their technology under varying temperatures, pressures, and humidity, and led to a joint-development agreement with Building Envelope Materials, a Greentown alumni company. Saint-Gobain installed a Materials Library in Greentown’s prototyping lab, where startups can get samples of the various coatings, plastics, ceramics, and more that are under Saint-Gobain’s umbrella. The leading building materials company was integral to the opening of Greentown’s headquarters, donating over $1 million worth of products and becoming the presenting partner of the building’s Town Green event space.
Playing with the reference to the Kyoto Golden Pavilion Kinkakuji, which mirrors itself in the “Kyokochi” or “Kagami no mizu umi” (the mirror lake), we placed the Saint-Gobain headquarters above a water pond (at same level as the meeting rooms floor of the 1st basement) to recall the history of its location and soften as much as possible the contact of the building with the surrounding solid fog, the man made stalagmitic concrete environment : the Tokyo-Kawasaki-Yokohama megalopolis.Saint-Gobain has been a committed Greentown partner since 2014. While it drew so much from the company history/technology – the bridge, through which we access the building, symbolizing the Saint-Gobain/Pont-a-Mousson bridge logo – the building also relates to the Japanese tradition and its re-interpretation in the contemporary context : silk screened glass, whose motif recalls the yuki mi (paper shoji with a transparent zone at eye level to watch the "snow falling"), had been used for the south-west/west volume, where it controls the sun’s intensity. The same pattern is also used for the original white silk screen pattern on the façades. Master Ray is used in the building sometimes backed with a thin layer of silver coating to give a metallic aspect to the glass. Saint-Gobain CertainTeed is a leading North American manufacturer of building materials including roofing, vinyl siding, trim, fence. From pale green to complete transparency, all the colors and the textures of the building derive from the historical colour palette glass. Respecting the various height regulations, the building utilizes them to its own advantage. Worldwide leader in light and sustainable construction, Saint-Gobain designs, manufactures and distributes materials and solutions for the construction. Each volume has a different day and night luminescence expressed by the choice of different types of glass. Hence, the building marries in the heights two volumes with different orientations at ground level. Sited at a stone’s throw from the Imperial Palace, the site is at the confluence of two different urban strands, crossing each other at a slight angle, both tangential to the oval city grid surrounding the Imperial Palace.
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