Clemente Bar
An urban infill street facade precedent by Allied Works featuring a striking material contrast between a dark, unitized panel mass and a transparent, multi-level glazed volume.
- What we like about this project
- The transition between the opaque dark metal volume and the completely transparent glass volume occurs abruptly at a razor-thin vertical reveal.
Materials
- metal-panel
- glass
- steel
- perforated-metal
Visual identifiers
- split-facade
- punched-metal-panels
- glass-curtain-wall
- urban-infill
Style tags
- contemporary
- urban
- material-contrast
Visual tags
- commercial
- mixed-use
- street-frontage
- contrast
- daylight
- Geometry
- Two distinct adjacent urban volumes: the left volume is an orthogonal grid of dark cladding with punched vertical windows; the right volume is a multi-story glazed curtain wall system with alternating perforated metal panels.
- Facade system
- Unitized metal panel cladding adjacent to a multi-story structural glazing and louver system.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with composite floor slabs
- Spatial scale
- Four-story commercial or mixed-use urban infill at human scale.
- Lighting
- Bright daytime illumination with soft, even front lighting revealing interior furnishings and storefront depth.
- Atmosphere
- Balanced contrast of industrial opacity and open, welcoming interior light.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with neighboring sidewalk, street tree, and overhead utility lines.
- Spatial experience
- The street elevation balances heavy, opaque urban massing on the left against a luminous, open interior showcase on the right, inviting visual connection to the sidewalk.
- Composition rhythm
- Bipartite composition pairing a regular vertical grid on the left with a shifting transparent/opaque rhythm on the right.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial mixed-use bar and retail
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- metal-panel, glass, steel, perforated-metal
- Visual identifiers
- split-facade, punched-metal-panels, glass-curtain-wall, urban-infill
- Style tags
- contemporary, urban, material-contrast
- Visual tags
- commercial, mixed-use, street-frontage, contrast, daylight
- Geometry
- Two distinct adjacent urban volumes: the left volume is an orthogonal grid of dark cladding with punched vertical windows; the right volume is a multi-story glazed curtain wall system with alternating perforated metal panels.
- Facade system
- Unitized metal panel cladding adjacent to a multi-story structural glazing and louver system.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with composite floor slabs
- Spatial scale
- Four-story commercial or mixed-use urban infill at human scale.
- Lighting
- Bright daytime illumination with soft, even front lighting revealing interior furnishings and storefront depth.
- Atmosphere
- Balanced contrast of industrial opacity and open, welcoming interior light.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with neighboring sidewalk, street tree, and overhead utility lines.
- Spatial experience
- The street elevation balances heavy, opaque urban massing on the left against a luminous, open interior showcase on the right, inviting visual connection to the sidewalk.
- Composition rhythm
- Bipartite composition pairing a regular vertical grid on the left with a shifting transparent/opaque rhythm on the right.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial mixed-use bar and retail
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture