Bilder designed a series of four murals for YPF's new headquarters in Puerto Madero.
The building was designed by arquitect César Pelli, from Pelli Clarke Pelli, and Estudio Rosellini was in charge of all interior design. In 36 floors and more than 590.000 sqf, you have all new technologies and the best in interior and furniture design. One of the outstanding characteristics of the building is a five-story-high winter garden, in floor 26.
Bilder was called by YPF to design a system of wall graphics for that floor. The murals are placed on all four sides of two walls that divide different common areas, meeting rooms and service areas.
The idea was to use both the surface of the walls and the glass tha covered them and also separated areas with computers and LCD screens.
That concept was the base of the design: graphics in different layers.
Some non-figurative forms and distorted images of movement where plotted on the surface of the four walls and lighy-gray vinyl typography was plotted to the glass. The text read the names of all the places in Argentina where YPF gas stations are. Typography was layered to form the shape of trees –the same kind of the ones in the winter garden: jacarandas, a typical tree of this region.
What's interesting about the final design is the different views you get when you look from different angles.
