AKA_106_PalaisdeDanse_model_001_crop
An architectural physical model by Adam Khan Architects exploring a folded roof extension with glazed gables atop a traditional base, providing a precedent for roof-level interventions.
- What we like about this project
- Miniature scale figures visible inside the triangular clerestory gable, bringing human scale to the roof addition.
Materials
- cardboard
- foam-board
- paper
- plastic
Visual identifiers
- folded-roof
- cardboard-model
- glazed-gables
- mansard-addition
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- craft-focused
Visual tags
- study-model
- roof-extension
- stacked-massing
- contextual-integration
- folded-geometry
- Geometry
- A stacked massing composition featuring a solid white base volume topped by a complex faceted mansard or attic roof with glazed triangular gables and repetitive gabled dormers.
- Facade system
- Glazed triangular gable windows interspersed with folded cardboard roof planes above a punched-window masonry base.
- Structural guess
- Lightweight timber or steel truss superstructure resting on an existing masonry lower level.
- Spatial scale
- Architectural working model scale, approximately 1:50 or 1:100, indicated by miniature scale figures placed behind the glazed gable.
- Lighting
- Neutral studio lighting from above casting soft, directional shadows across the cardboard folds and white volumetric masses.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, precise studio presentation atmosphere highlighting volumetric interplay and material contrast.
- Environmental context
- Studio backdrop with adjacent white contextual massing models visible to the left and foreground.
- Spatial experience
- The model demonstrates how a lightweight, folded-roof superstructure can sit atop an existing heavy masonry base, creating transparent habitable attic volumes.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating triangular gables create a rhythmic skyline across the primary facade elevation.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual model study
- Program
- Cultural or residential adaptive reuse
- Perspective
- Model / Physical
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- cardboard, foam-board, paper, plastic
- Visual identifiers
- folded-roof, cardboard-model, glazed-gables, mansard-addition
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, craft-focused
- Visual tags
- study-model, roof-extension, stacked-massing, contextual-integration, folded-geometry
- Geometry
- A stacked massing composition featuring a solid white base volume topped by a complex faceted mansard or attic roof with glazed triangular gables and repetitive gabled dormers.
- Facade system
- Glazed triangular gable windows interspersed with folded cardboard roof planes above a punched-window masonry base.
- Structural guess
- Lightweight timber or steel truss superstructure resting on an existing masonry lower level.
- Spatial scale
- Architectural working model scale, approximately 1:50 or 1:100, indicated by miniature scale figures placed behind the glazed gable.
- Lighting
- Neutral studio lighting from above casting soft, directional shadows across the cardboard folds and white volumetric masses.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, precise studio presentation atmosphere highlighting volumetric interplay and material contrast.
- Environmental context
- Studio backdrop with adjacent white contextual massing models visible to the left and foreground.
- Spatial experience
- The model demonstrates how a lightweight, folded-roof superstructure can sit atop an existing heavy masonry base, creating transparent habitable attic volumes.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating triangular gables create a rhythmic skyline across the primary facade elevation.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual model study
- Program
- Cultural or residential adaptive reuse
- Perspective
- Model / Physical
- Discipline
- architecture