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A monumental concrete atrium precedent featuring dramatic waffle-slab geometry, deep reveals, and high arched clerestory openings suitable for large civic or institutional buildings.
- What we like about this project
- Intricate waffle-like beam grid forming the intermediate frieze below the clerestory.
Materials
- exposed-concrete
- steel
- glass
Visual identifiers
- concrete-atrium
- arched-clerestory
- grand-staircase
- waffle-slab
Style tags
- brutalist
- monumental
- concrete
- civic
Visual tags
- brutalism
- monumental
- concrete
- atrium
- civic
- daylight
- Geometry
- Multi-level circular or polygonal atrium volume with deep waffle-like concrete waffle slabs and grand stair ascending through the center.
- Structural guess
- Cast-in-place concrete columns and deep waffle slabs framing a multi-story open volume.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental multi-story volume with a person visible for human scale on the stairway.
- Lighting
- Direct bright daylight through high arched clerestory windows casting sharp diagonal shadows.
- Atmosphere
- Solemn, cavernous, and bathed in dramatic shafts of daylight.
- Environmental context
- Large indoor public or civic atrium space.
- Spatial experience
- Monumental scale with layered vertical tiers; shafts of sunlight create strong contrast across the raw concrete surfaces.
- Composition rhythm
- Repetitive vertical structural piers paired with regular arched window bays above.
- Style reading
- Monumental brutalist civic architecture
- Program
- Civic or institutional atrium
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- exposed-concrete, steel, glass
- Visual identifiers
- concrete-atrium, arched-clerestory, grand-staircase, waffle-slab
- Style tags
- brutalist, monumental, concrete, civic
- Visual tags
- brutalism, monumental, concrete, atrium, civic, daylight
- Geometry
- Multi-level circular or polygonal atrium volume with deep waffle-like concrete waffle slabs and grand stair ascending through the center.
- Structural guess
- Cast-in-place concrete columns and deep waffle slabs framing a multi-story open volume.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental multi-story volume with a person visible for human scale on the stairway.
- Lighting
- Direct bright daylight through high arched clerestory windows casting sharp diagonal shadows.
- Atmosphere
- Solemn, cavernous, and bathed in dramatic shafts of daylight.
- Environmental context
- Large indoor public or civic atrium space.
- Spatial experience
- Monumental scale with layered vertical tiers; shafts of sunlight create strong contrast across the raw concrete surfaces.
- Composition rhythm
- Repetitive vertical structural piers paired with regular arched window bays above.
- Style reading
- Monumental brutalist civic architecture
- Program
- Civic or institutional atrium
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture