美洲杯帆船赛大楼-Americas-Cup-Building
上海
An iconic waterfront pavilion precedent characterized by deep stacked cantilevered slabs and continuous horizontal viewing terraces overlooking a harbor.
- What we like about this project
- A prominent diagonal structural brace cuts across the central glass facade, breaking the horizontal rhythm.
Materials
- painted-steel
- concrete
- glass
Visual identifiers
- cantilevered-slabs
- horizontal-terraces
- waterfront-facade
- white-panels
Style tags
- contemporary
- minimalist
- rationalist
Visual tags
- cantilever
- waterfront
- public-pavilion
- horizontal-datums
- modernist
- Geometry
- Stacked horizontal white cantilevered slabs forming deep overhangs and terraces, intersected by a dramatic diagonal structural element on the upper levels.
- Facade system
- Floor-to-ceiling glass curtain wall recessed behind wide perimeter outdoor terraces.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with large cantilevered trusses supporting expansive horizontal floor plates.
- Spatial scale
- Large public-scale pavilion; multi-story massing dwarfing the ground-level waterfront promenade.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting crisp horizontal shadows beneath the deep white slab overhangs.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, bright, and calm coastal atmosphere reflecting off calm water.
- Environmental context
- Waterfront quay edge with moored boats, vertical sponsor flags, and an open expanse of water in the foreground.
- Spatial experience
- The building reads as a series of floating horizontal viewing platforms opening directly toward the harbor water.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong horizontal banding emphasized by the stacked slab edges contrasting with vertical flags.
- Style reading
- Contemporary minimalist rationalism
- Program
- Maritime hospitality and event pavilion
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- painted-steel, concrete, glass
- Visual identifiers
- cantilevered-slabs, horizontal-terraces, waterfront-facade, white-panels
- Style tags
- contemporary, minimalist, rationalist
- Visual tags
- cantilever, waterfront, public-pavilion, horizontal-datums, modernist
- Geometry
- Stacked horizontal white cantilevered slabs forming deep overhangs and terraces, intersected by a dramatic diagonal structural element on the upper levels.
- Facade system
- Floor-to-ceiling glass curtain wall recessed behind wide perimeter outdoor terraces.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with large cantilevered trusses supporting expansive horizontal floor plates.
- Spatial scale
- Large public-scale pavilion; multi-story massing dwarfing the ground-level waterfront promenade.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting crisp horizontal shadows beneath the deep white slab overhangs.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, bright, and calm coastal atmosphere reflecting off calm water.
- Environmental context
- Waterfront quay edge with moored boats, vertical sponsor flags, and an open expanse of water in the foreground.
- Spatial experience
- The building reads as a series of floating horizontal viewing platforms opening directly toward the harbor water.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong horizontal banding emphasized by the stacked slab edges contrasting with vertical flags.
- Style reading
- Contemporary minimalist rationalism
- Program
- Maritime hospitality and event pavilion
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture