Castle Gardens
An adaptive reuse precedent demonstrating how a transparent multi-story atrium connects new white-volume interventions directly to an existing historic exterior brick facade.
- What we like about this project
- An entire historic exterior brick wall with an arched window is preserved as an interior room partition.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- steel
- tile
- gypsum-board
Visual identifiers
- historic-brick-facade
- curtain-wall
- atrium-bridge
- glass-railings
Style tags
- contemporary
- adaptive-reuse
- contextual
Visual tags
- adaptive-reuse
- transition-space
- daylit-atrium
- historic-integration
- contemporary-addition
- Geometry
- Linear multi-level transition space bounded by a towering curtain wall on one side and an original historic exterior brick wall on the other.
- Facade system
- Multi-story structurally glazed curtain wall framing urban views.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame addition bridging to existing masonry bearing walls.
- Spatial scale
- Double-to-triple height atrium corridor connecting multiple floor levels.
- Lighting
- Bright diffused daylight floods through the large multi-story curtain wall, casting soft illumination across the tiled floor and brick surfaces.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, airy, and bridged between historical warmth and modern transparency.
- Environmental context
- Urban interior space with exterior views of neighboring apartment buildings through the full-height glazing.
- Spatial experience
- Movement along the tiled gallery floor connects contemporary white volumes with the restored masonry facade of the historic structure.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical grid of the curtain wall contrasts with the horizontal bands of the floors and the irregular bond of the historic brick.
- Style reading
- Contemporary intervention meeting historic architecture
- Program
- Community facility or multi-family housing common area
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, steel, tile, gypsum-board
- Visual identifiers
- historic-brick-facade, curtain-wall, atrium-bridge, glass-railings
- Style tags
- contemporary, adaptive-reuse, contextual
- Visual tags
- adaptive-reuse, transition-space, daylit-atrium, historic-integration, contemporary-addition
- Geometry
- Linear multi-level transition space bounded by a towering curtain wall on one side and an original historic exterior brick wall on the other.
- Facade system
- Multi-story structurally glazed curtain wall framing urban views.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame addition bridging to existing masonry bearing walls.
- Spatial scale
- Double-to-triple height atrium corridor connecting multiple floor levels.
- Lighting
- Bright diffused daylight floods through the large multi-story curtain wall, casting soft illumination across the tiled floor and brick surfaces.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, airy, and bridged between historical warmth and modern transparency.
- Environmental context
- Urban interior space with exterior views of neighboring apartment buildings through the full-height glazing.
- Spatial experience
- Movement along the tiled gallery floor connects contemporary white volumes with the restored masonry facade of the historic structure.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical grid of the curtain wall contrasts with the horizontal bands of the floors and the irregular bond of the historic brick.
- Style reading
- Contemporary intervention meeting historic architecture
- Program
- Community facility or multi-family housing common area
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture