OMS-ONUSIDA

New construction for the fight against AIDS

The OMS ONUSIDA is the new headquarters of UNAIDS, an organisation established in 1996 with the aim of coordinating the fight against HIV/AIDS among individual countries. The new building is connected to the WHO building by a transitional interface.
The goal of UNAIDS was a project which, on the one hand, would make cooperation with the WHO easier and more efficient, and the new building would also take on representative tasks, on the other. A building of high urban, architectural and functional quality was built. Special attention was paid to a sustainable balance between economic and ecological demands. Panels that provide heat and cold

The building has four levels and two basements with a useful area of 26,000 sqm. It has large rooms with no intermediate supporting structures, most of which are pre-stressed panels. These panels contain all the technical wiring, including the lighting and smoke detection network. They also function as "active panels" that supply heat and cold. Equipped with complex façades, the building is subtly distinguished by its "skin" of screen-printed glass, which makes it visually "vibrate".