job-daipu
北京
An aerial precedent for organic, multi-level sunken courtyards using sweeping curves and light wells to animate subterranean spaces.
- What we like about this project
- The deep, multi-tiered stacking of circular voids visually blurs the boundary between roofscape and subterranean ground.
Materials
- white-gravel
- glass
- steel
- dark-wood-decking
- stucco
Visual identifiers
- sunken-courtyard
- curvilinear-balustrade
- white-gravel
- organic-geometry
Style tags
- contemporary
- organic
- sculptural
Visual tags
- subterranean
- courtyard
- curved
- public-realm
- multi-level
- Geometry
- Curvilinear, organic forms carve into terraced multi-level outdoor planes, featuring stacked circular voids that cascade light into lower subterranean spaces.
- Facade system
- Curved glazed curtain walls wrapping sunken perimeter rooms.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with suspended slab terraces and retaining walls.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story complex with human-scaled courtyards and sweeping pedestrian bridges.
- Lighting
- Twilight illumination from upward-facing wall washers and interior glazing casts soft glows on the white gravel and curved parapets.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, sculpted twilight mood defined by soft uplighting and clean white gravel surfaces.
- Environmental context
- Urban multi-level roofscape and sunken courtyard layout interacting with an adjacent street edge.
- Spatial experience
- A dynamic progression of stepped levels and sweeping balustrades that draw the eye downward into quiet, light-filled gravel courtyards.
- Composition rhythm
- Sweeping concentric curves contrasted against dark linear decking surfaces.
- Style reading
- Contemporary organic architectural landscape
- Program
- Cultural or commercial complex with public courtyards
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- white-gravel, glass, steel, dark-wood-decking, stucco
- Visual identifiers
- sunken-courtyard, curvilinear-balustrade, white-gravel, organic-geometry
- Style tags
- contemporary, organic, sculptural
- Visual tags
- subterranean, courtyard, curved, public-realm, multi-level
- Geometry
- Curvilinear, organic forms carve into terraced multi-level outdoor planes, featuring stacked circular voids that cascade light into lower subterranean spaces.
- Facade system
- Curved glazed curtain walls wrapping sunken perimeter rooms.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with suspended slab terraces and retaining walls.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story complex with human-scaled courtyards and sweeping pedestrian bridges.
- Lighting
- Twilight illumination from upward-facing wall washers and interior glazing casts soft glows on the white gravel and curved parapets.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, sculpted twilight mood defined by soft uplighting and clean white gravel surfaces.
- Environmental context
- Urban multi-level roofscape and sunken courtyard layout interacting with an adjacent street edge.
- Spatial experience
- A dynamic progression of stepped levels and sweeping balustrades that draw the eye downward into quiet, light-filled gravel courtyards.
- Composition rhythm
- Sweeping concentric curves contrasted against dark linear decking surfaces.
- Style reading
- Contemporary organic architectural landscape
- Program
- Cultural or commercial complex with public courtyards
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture