03_17-Story-St-Mixed-Use-Development-in-Cambridge-MA_设计中
上海 / 杭州
A contextual urban infill precedent demonstrating how a curved, pale-clad multi-story massing can wrap around and respect an existing historic structure on a tight street corner.
- What we like about this project
- The new massing hugs the historic mansard roof form closely, creating a deliberate tension between old and new.
Materials
- stone-panel
- glass
- wood
- brick
- slate
Visual identifiers
- curved-facade
- historic-integration
- stone-panels
- punched-windows
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- historic-integration
Visual tags
- mixed-use
- historic-preservation
- urban-infill
- contextual
- multi-family
- Geometry
- An asymmetrical multi-story massing featuring gently curved facade planes that wrap around a restored historic Second Empire style building in the foreground.
- Facade system
- Precast stone or metal panel rainscreen with punched glazed openings.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame or steel superstructure with non-structural rainscreen cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise urban infill spanning approximately 7 stories, contrasting with a 2.5-story historic structure.
- Lighting
- Soft overcast daylight casting gentle shadows across the facade panels and streetscape.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, civic atmosphere integrating historic scale with modern urban density.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner in Cambridge, MA, juxtaposing low-scale historic houses and a multi-story mixed-use envelope with neighboring brick context.
- Spatial experience
- The street intersection feels anchored by the low-rise historic building, while the taller new development rises behind with softened corners and deep reveals that reduce its apparent scale.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window alignments on the curved facade contrasting against the historical window symmetry in the foreground.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual urban architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use residential and commercial development
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stone-panel, glass, wood, brick, slate
- Visual identifiers
- curved-facade, historic-integration, stone-panels, punched-windows
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, historic-integration
- Visual tags
- mixed-use, historic-preservation, urban-infill, contextual, multi-family
- Geometry
- An asymmetrical multi-story massing featuring gently curved facade planes that wrap around a restored historic Second Empire style building in the foreground.
- Facade system
- Precast stone or metal panel rainscreen with punched glazed openings.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame or steel superstructure with non-structural rainscreen cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise urban infill spanning approximately 7 stories, contrasting with a 2.5-story historic structure.
- Lighting
- Soft overcast daylight casting gentle shadows across the facade panels and streetscape.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, civic atmosphere integrating historic scale with modern urban density.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner in Cambridge, MA, juxtaposing low-scale historic houses and a multi-story mixed-use envelope with neighboring brick context.
- Spatial experience
- The street intersection feels anchored by the low-rise historic building, while the taller new development rises behind with softened corners and deep reveals that reduce its apparent scale.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window alignments on the curved facade contrasting against the historical window symmetry in the foreground.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual urban architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use residential and commercial development
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture