Fontana City Hall Annex
An exterior precedent for a civic annex combining elevated white panel volumes over an open ground level with continuous ribbon glazing and punched window rhythms.
- What we like about this project
- The upper white volume dramatically hovers over an open recessed parking level, creating a floating effect.
Materials
- metal-panel
- glass
- concrete
- stucco
Visual identifiers
- ribbon-glazing
- white-panels
- elevated-volume
- punched-windows
Style tags
- contemporary
- corporate
- rationalist
Visual tags
- civic
- commercial
- suburban
- horizontal-massing
- parking-podium
- Geometry
- Low-slung orthogonal massing featuring an elevated upper white volume cantilevered or supported over an open ground-level parking or circulation podium.
- Facade system
- Composite metal or plaster panel cladding system with continuous ribbon glazing and punched window openings.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with composite deck slabs and ground-level concrete columns.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story civic/commercial scale with a dominant horizontal emphasis along the street frontage.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting clean shadows across the white facade panels and revealing depth in the punched window assemblies.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, clean, and open under crisp daylight.
- Environmental context
- Suburban street intersection with asphalt paving, sidewalks, young street trees, and distant clear blue sky.
- Spatial experience
- Approached from the street corner, the building presents an open, permeable base that transitions into more formal, punched-window administrative elevations.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal ribbon windows contrast with the vertical rhythm of punched windows on the adjacent wing.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate civic architecture
- Program
- City hall annex and municipal offices
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- metal-panel, glass, concrete, stucco
- Visual identifiers
- ribbon-glazing, white-panels, elevated-volume, punched-windows
- Style tags
- contemporary, corporate, rationalist
- Visual tags
- civic, commercial, suburban, horizontal-massing, parking-podium
- Geometry
- Low-slung orthogonal massing featuring an elevated upper white volume cantilevered or supported over an open ground-level parking or circulation podium.
- Facade system
- Composite metal or plaster panel cladding system with continuous ribbon glazing and punched window openings.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with composite deck slabs and ground-level concrete columns.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story civic/commercial scale with a dominant horizontal emphasis along the street frontage.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting clean shadows across the white facade panels and revealing depth in the punched window assemblies.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, clean, and open under crisp daylight.
- Environmental context
- Suburban street intersection with asphalt paving, sidewalks, young street trees, and distant clear blue sky.
- Spatial experience
- Approached from the street corner, the building presents an open, permeable base that transitions into more formal, punched-window administrative elevations.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal ribbon windows contrast with the vertical rhythm of punched windows on the adjacent wing.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate civic architecture
- Program
- City hall annex and municipal offices
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture