Cancer Center Exterior 6
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An exterior precedent showing how heavy stone volumes and deep timber-finished eaves can soften healthcare architecture for a suburban setting.
Materials
- stone
- wood
- glass
- metal
Visual identifiers
- stone-cladding
- deep-roof-overhang
- curtain-wall
- retaining-wall
Style tags
- contemporary
- regionalist
- institutional
Visual tags
- healthcare
- suburban
- stone-base
- warm-lighting
- asymmetrical
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical two-story volumes with deep roof overhangs, articulated by a prominent projecting stone-clad base and expansive multi-story curtain wall glazing.
- Facade system
- Combination of rubble stone masonry, wood siding, and structural metal-frame glazing.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or wood framing over concrete foundation and retaining walls.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scale foreground retaining wall leading up to two-story institutional massing.
- Lighting
- Twilight or late dusk illumination glowing from interior windows, contrasting with a clear blue-grey evening sky.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, welcoming, and reassuring twilight glow emanating from active interiors.
- Environmental context
- Suburban sloping site with native landscaping and retaining walls at the foreground.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across a planted retaining wall and curving metal fence, presenting a warm, secure, and grounded healthcare frontage.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window punches on the stone base balanced against the expansive glazed vertical stair tower and horizontal roof bands.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regionalist healthcare architecture
- Program
- Cancer center or outpatient medical facility
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stone, wood, glass, metal
- Visual identifiers
- stone-cladding, deep-roof-overhang, curtain-wall, retaining-wall
- Style tags
- contemporary, regionalist, institutional
- Visual tags
- healthcare, suburban, stone-base, warm-lighting, asymmetrical
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical two-story volumes with deep roof overhangs, articulated by a prominent projecting stone-clad base and expansive multi-story curtain wall glazing.
- Facade system
- Combination of rubble stone masonry, wood siding, and structural metal-frame glazing.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or wood framing over concrete foundation and retaining walls.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scale foreground retaining wall leading up to two-story institutional massing.
- Lighting
- Twilight or late dusk illumination glowing from interior windows, contrasting with a clear blue-grey evening sky.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, welcoming, and reassuring twilight glow emanating from active interiors.
- Environmental context
- Suburban sloping site with native landscaping and retaining walls at the foreground.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across a planted retaining wall and curving metal fence, presenting a warm, secure, and grounded healthcare frontage.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window punches on the stone base balanced against the expansive glazed vertical stair tower and horizontal roof bands.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regionalist healthcare architecture
- Program
- Cancer center or outpatient medical facility
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture