UCI Student Center
An exterior architectural rendering of a higher education student center that employs vertical timber sunshades and generous outdoor circulation to connect campus life with interior spaces.
- What we like about this project
- Bright yellow interior accents peek through the glazed facade, animating the facade rhythm behind the wood louvers.
Materials
- timber
- glass
- steel
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- timber-fins
- elevated-terrace
- glazed-facade
- pedestrian-plaza
Style tags
- contemporary
- sustainable
- timber-accented
Visual tags
- higher-education
- student-center
- mass-timber
- daylight-control
- campus-architecture
- Geometry
- Long, low-slung two-story horizontal massing with an articulated rhythm of vertical fins along the facade and an open corner balcony.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall glazing paired with operable vertical timber louvers for solar control.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with exposed composite timber roof and floor overhangs.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled campus pavilion, roughly two stories tall with wide welcoming outdoor zones.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight casting soft shadows and highlighting the warm timber tones of the overhangs and vertical louvers.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant, warm, and inviting campus atmosphere animated by students and natural daylight.
- Environmental context
- Campus setting surrounded by lush lawn, native planting beds, and mature trees.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across a landscaped pedestrian plaza with native planting, leading to an active covered ground-floor entry and outdoor seating zone.
- Composition rhythm
- Steady vertical rhythm established by exterior sunshades and structural columns marching down the long elevation.
- Style reading
- Contemporary sustainable campus architecture
- Program
- University student center and dining hall
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, glass, steel, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- timber-fins, elevated-terrace, glazed-facade, pedestrian-plaza
- Style tags
- contemporary, sustainable, timber-accented
- Visual tags
- higher-education, student-center, mass-timber, daylight-control, campus-architecture
- Geometry
- Long, low-slung two-story horizontal massing with an articulated rhythm of vertical fins along the facade and an open corner balcony.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall glazing paired with operable vertical timber louvers for solar control.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with exposed composite timber roof and floor overhangs.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled campus pavilion, roughly two stories tall with wide welcoming outdoor zones.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight casting soft shadows and highlighting the warm timber tones of the overhangs and vertical louvers.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant, warm, and inviting campus atmosphere animated by students and natural daylight.
- Environmental context
- Campus setting surrounded by lush lawn, native planting beds, and mature trees.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across a landscaped pedestrian plaza with native planting, leading to an active covered ground-floor entry and outdoor seating zone.
- Composition rhythm
- Steady vertical rhythm established by exterior sunshades and structural columns marching down the long elevation.
- Style reading
- Contemporary sustainable campus architecture
- Program
- University student center and dining hall
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture