2024.12.13
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Spatial
Training Centre desfa
This education centre of desfa, a natural gas transmission system operator in Greece, was designed by L.L. Associates and Typical was requested to design a graphic shading system that would be printed on the glass panels around the building.
The selected proposal used the logotype of desfa as materiality, interpreting visually the nature of gas means that we speak about something that is dynamic. This resulted that the letters from the logotype would be liquefied or extended on the long sides of the building and densified or compressed on the smaller sides, creating with the rasterisation of the letterforms and gassy game of open and closed lines.
The etymology of the word gas was also very inspiring:
1650s, from Dutch gas, probably from Greek khaos “empty space” (see chaos). The sound of Dutch “g” is roughly equivalent to that of Greek “kh.” First used by Flemish chemist J.B. van Helmont (1577-1644), probably influenced by Paracelsus, who used khaos in an occult sense of “proper elements of spirits” or “ultra-rarified water,” which was van Helmont’s definition of gas.
