4九树公寓-Ninetree-Village
上海
A housing block precedent featuring layered vertical louvers and balconies integrated into a parkland setting, designed by David Chipperfield Architects.
- What we like about this project
- The dense layer of operable vertical louvers creates a shifting moiré effect across the facades as viewing angles change.
Materials
- metal-louvers
- glass
- concrete
- timber
Visual identifiers
- vertical-louvers
- balcony-recesses
- mid-rise-blocks
- tree-canopy-framing
Style tags
- contemporary
- minimalist
- contextual
Visual tags
- residential
- facade-screens
- housing-complex
- landscape-integration
- solar-control
- Geometry
- Orthogonal mid-rise blocks arranged with staggered offsets, fronted by dense planting and external louver systems.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall and punched windows shielded by external sliding dark metal louver screens.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete flat slab and column frame.
- Spatial scale
- Medium-scale residential precinct, roughly four to five stories high, framed by canopy-height vegetation.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused daylight casting delicate shadow patterns from operable louver screens onto facade walls.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, leafy, and protected, balancing crisp architectural geometry with soft natural foliage.
- Environmental context
- Park-like residential setting with mature trees interspersing between multi-family apartment volumes.
- Spatial experience
- Glimpses of housing blocks filtered through lush vertical tree growth and layered exterior screens.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic repetition of vertical louver bars overlaid on stacked horizontal slab lines.
- Style reading
- Contemporary minimalist residential architecture with environmental screening
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment complex
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- metal-louvers, glass, concrete, timber
- Visual identifiers
- vertical-louvers, balcony-recesses, mid-rise-blocks, tree-canopy-framing
- Style tags
- contemporary, minimalist, contextual
- Visual tags
- residential, facade-screens, housing-complex, landscape-integration, solar-control
- Geometry
- Orthogonal mid-rise blocks arranged with staggered offsets, fronted by dense planting and external louver systems.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall and punched windows shielded by external sliding dark metal louver screens.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete flat slab and column frame.
- Spatial scale
- Medium-scale residential precinct, roughly four to five stories high, framed by canopy-height vegetation.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused daylight casting delicate shadow patterns from operable louver screens onto facade walls.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, leafy, and protected, balancing crisp architectural geometry with soft natural foliage.
- Environmental context
- Park-like residential setting with mature trees interspersing between multi-family apartment volumes.
- Spatial experience
- Glimpses of housing blocks filtered through lush vertical tree growth and layered exterior screens.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic repetition of vertical louver bars overlaid on stacked horizontal slab lines.
- Style reading
- Contemporary minimalist residential architecture with environmental screening
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment complex
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture