10.英良石材档案馆（建成）
北京
An exterior street facade precedent utilizing a glowing checkerboard translucent screen and dark monolithic portals, created by Atelier Alter Architects.
- What we like about this project
- A living tree is dramatically framed within a cutout opening right in the middle of the glowing patterned facade.
Materials
- translucent-glass-or-resin
- dark-metal
- concrete
- stone
Visual identifiers
- checkerboard-facade
- translucent-tiles
- dark-portals
- recessed-courtyard
- atelier-alter-architects
Style tags
- contemporary
- experimental
- envelope-focused
- material-driven
Visual tags
- facade-screen
- night-lighting
- checkerboard
- urban-infill
- translucent
- architectural-lighting
- Geometry
- Low-slung rectilinear street facade featuring a continuous checkerboard screen wrapping the upper wall, punctuated by solid dark portals and a large recessed courtyard opening containing a tree.
- Facade system
- Custom translucent block screen-wall with alternating solid panels, suspended over a dark metallic structural base.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete core supporting an external decorative screen wall.
- Spatial scale
- One to two-story low-rise building fronting directly onto a paved vehicular or pedestrian street.
- Lighting
- Twilight ambient blue sky paired with warm interior illumination glowing outward through the translucent checkerboard facade and upward ground lighting.
- Atmosphere
- Ethereal and luminous; the heavy urban streetscape is softened by the warm, patterned glow radiating from the building skin.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge at dusk with overhead utility poles and wires visible against the darkening sky.
- Spatial experience
- The street-level approach transitions from an open urban asphalt edge through dark recessed thresholds into a softly glowing envelope.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating checkerboard pattern across the facade interrupted by solid vertical dark metal portals and a central void.
- Style reading
- Contemporary experimental envelope design
- Program
- Cultural archive or exhibition space
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- translucent-glass-or-resin, dark-metal, concrete, stone
- Visual identifiers
- checkerboard-facade, translucent-tiles, dark-portals, recessed-courtyard, atelier-alter-architects
- Style tags
- contemporary, experimental, envelope-focused, material-driven
- Visual tags
- facade-screen, night-lighting, checkerboard, urban-infill, translucent, architectural-lighting
- Geometry
- Low-slung rectilinear street facade featuring a continuous checkerboard screen wrapping the upper wall, punctuated by solid dark portals and a large recessed courtyard opening containing a tree.
- Facade system
- Custom translucent block screen-wall with alternating solid panels, suspended over a dark metallic structural base.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete core supporting an external decorative screen wall.
- Spatial scale
- One to two-story low-rise building fronting directly onto a paved vehicular or pedestrian street.
- Lighting
- Twilight ambient blue sky paired with warm interior illumination glowing outward through the translucent checkerboard facade and upward ground lighting.
- Atmosphere
- Ethereal and luminous; the heavy urban streetscape is softened by the warm, patterned glow radiating from the building skin.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge at dusk with overhead utility poles and wires visible against the darkening sky.
- Spatial experience
- The street-level approach transitions from an open urban asphalt edge through dark recessed thresholds into a softly glowing envelope.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating checkerboard pattern across the facade interrupted by solid vertical dark metal portals and a central void.
- Style reading
- Contemporary experimental envelope design
- Program
- Cultural archive or exhibition space
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture