Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, King’s College
An exterior facade detail precedent showcasing operable or fixed perforated metal shading screens and vertical structural fins that regulate daylight and articulate a clean institutional grid.
- What we like about this project
- The perforated panels create a secondary dotted shadow pattern that doubles the visual complexity of the clean white facade.
Materials
- aluminum
- glass
- perforated-metal
- painted-panels
Visual identifiers
- perforated-metal-panels
- vertical-fins
- ribbon-glazing
- patterned-shadows
Style tags
- contemporary
- rationalist
- functionalist
Visual tags
- facade-detail
- solar-shading
- institutional
- rationalist
- curtain-wall
- Geometry
- Orthogonal multi-story elevation grid with vertical dark structural mullions and projecting perforated sun-shade panels that cast patterned shadows across white spandrel panels and ribbon glazing.
- Facade system
- Unitized metal curtain wall featuring ribbon windows, white spandrels, and external perforated shading screens.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame supporting a lightweight exterior curtain wall system.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise institutional scale; window bays and shading fins correspond to multi-story workplace or laboratory heights.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight from the side casting sharp, patterned diagonal shadows through perforated screens onto the white facade.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, precise, and orderly with active interplay between shadow and white solid surfaces.
- Environmental context
- Urban institutional or educational campus setting with adjacent mature trees and sky overhead.
- Spatial experience
- A crisp, controlled building edge viewed from ground level, with mature tree foliage softening the left foreground.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict rhythmic vertical modulation set by repeating dark fins and perforated panels alternating with transparent glazing bays.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rationalist institutional architecture
- Program
- Institutional research laboratory or academic building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- aluminum, glass, perforated-metal, painted-panels
- Visual identifiers
- perforated-metal-panels, vertical-fins, ribbon-glazing, patterned-shadows
- Style tags
- contemporary, rationalist, functionalist
- Visual tags
- facade-detail, solar-shading, institutional, rationalist, curtain-wall
- Geometry
- Orthogonal multi-story elevation grid with vertical dark structural mullions and projecting perforated sun-shade panels that cast patterned shadows across white spandrel panels and ribbon glazing.
- Facade system
- Unitized metal curtain wall featuring ribbon windows, white spandrels, and external perforated shading screens.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame supporting a lightweight exterior curtain wall system.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise institutional scale; window bays and shading fins correspond to multi-story workplace or laboratory heights.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight from the side casting sharp, patterned diagonal shadows through perforated screens onto the white facade.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, precise, and orderly with active interplay between shadow and white solid surfaces.
- Environmental context
- Urban institutional or educational campus setting with adjacent mature trees and sky overhead.
- Spatial experience
- A crisp, controlled building edge viewed from ground level, with mature tree foliage softening the left foreground.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict rhythmic vertical modulation set by repeating dark fins and perforated panels alternating with transparent glazing bays.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rationalist institutional architecture
- Program
- Institutional research laboratory or academic building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture