studio
An urban commercial facade intervention by Alma-nac utilizing bold yellow paint blocks and graphic branding to revitalize an existing brick industrial structure.
- What we like about this project
- The yellow painted graphic cuts across different facade planes and window heights in a sharp diagonal chevron pattern.
Materials
- brick
- paint
- glass
- steel
Visual identifiers
- painted-brick
- yellow-facade
- horizontal-strip-windows
- urban-corner
- graphic-overlay
Style tags
- contemporary
- graphic
- adaptive-reuse
- bold-color
Visual tags
- adaptive-reuse
- facade-intervention
- urban-infill
- color-blocking
- commercial-exterior
- Geometry
- An asymmetrical, multi-story urban corner building featuring a flat roofline, punched multi-pane horizontal strip windows, and large graphic color block applications directly onto brick masonry.
- Facade system
- Painted brick masonry wall with punched horizontal multi-pane steel or aluminum windows.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry with internal steel framing.
- Spatial scale
- Medium-rise urban building roughly four to five stories high, scaled to the surrounding streetscape.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight providing even illumination across the vertical facade surfaces with minimal direct shadows.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant and high-contrast, energizing a standard urban street corner through unexpected color application.
- Environmental context
- Urban street intersection with traditional brick storefronts, road signage, and passing traffic under an overcast sky.
- Spatial experience
- The street-level approach is framed by dense urban context with foreground motion blur from traffic, leading the eye up toward the prominent yellow-painted upper massing and graphic branding.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal window bands create a steady rhythm contrasted against the diagonal geometry of the painted color zones.
- Style reading
- Contemporary graphic urban intervention
- Program
- Workspace and community hub
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, paint, glass, steel
- Visual identifiers
- painted-brick, yellow-facade, horizontal-strip-windows, urban-corner, graphic-overlay
- Style tags
- contemporary, graphic, adaptive-reuse, bold-color
- Visual tags
- adaptive-reuse, facade-intervention, urban-infill, color-blocking, commercial-exterior
- Geometry
- An asymmetrical, multi-story urban corner building featuring a flat roofline, punched multi-pane horizontal strip windows, and large graphic color block applications directly onto brick masonry.
- Facade system
- Painted brick masonry wall with punched horizontal multi-pane steel or aluminum windows.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry with internal steel framing.
- Spatial scale
- Medium-rise urban building roughly four to five stories high, scaled to the surrounding streetscape.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight providing even illumination across the vertical facade surfaces with minimal direct shadows.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant and high-contrast, energizing a standard urban street corner through unexpected color application.
- Environmental context
- Urban street intersection with traditional brick storefronts, road signage, and passing traffic under an overcast sky.
- Spatial experience
- The street-level approach is framed by dense urban context with foreground motion blur from traffic, leading the eye up toward the prominent yellow-painted upper massing and graphic branding.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal window bands create a steady rhythm contrasted against the diagonal geometry of the painted color zones.
- Style reading
- Contemporary graphic urban intervention
- Program
- Workspace and community hub
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture