Tata Hall Harvard Business School
Tata Hall Harvard Business School
Tata Hall is a 165,000 SF Executive Education Building funded by Ratan Tata, the Chairman of Tata Sons, LTD and graduate of the HBS School of Advanced Management. This building offers classrooms, housing, and gathering space for students of the executive education program
The project design included a 37-foot tall, double-skinned curtain wall with vented glass layers, set 36 inches apart that functions as a thermal blanket in colder temperatures and creates a cooling convection in warmer weather seasons. This design is unique to the New England region and allowed it to achieve LEED Platinum Certification.
Completed in 2013, Tata Hall is a testimonial to the custom fabrication capabilities of GGI and the unlimited design options and durability of Alice® ceramic frit printing on glass. The building façade consist of large glass panels fabricated by GGI using a custom wood grain design and custom color to match the exotic natural wood finish used for the interior. GGI was able to create the Alice® glass panels with large ‘knock out’ areas or narrow vertical slotted spaces within the fully opaque glazing to support the need for vision areas and daylighting.
Based on the placement in the building envelope, the inboard lite of the insulating glass unit is laminated with the Alice® ceramic frit wood grain design on the #2 and #7 surface of configuration and white back-paint on the #4 surface—versus Alice® on the #4 surface and white back-paint on the #5 surface.
Solarban 70 was used on the #2 surface of the outboard lite of the IGU. This glass configuration lends to the durability, sound control, and safety of the glazing panels for a high performing, multifunctional glass façade. The GGI team is unique in their ability to provide large format ceramic frit printed glass that is highly customized to meet the design teams requirements.
