Folding Screens of Glass and Steel

The Fuji Xerox R&D Square is a 20-story office building with enough space for 4,500 employees. The whole structure is elliptical in shape and features a glass exterior that mimics traditional Japanese folding screens that create a wonderful mixture of varying degrees of reflected light.

The jagged edges of the exterior design also helps break up the flow of air along the building’s exterior surface, which helps weaken the sudden gusts of downdrafts and vortices that hit pedestrians on the city streets below.