3浙江医药总部大楼-Zhejiang-Medicine-Headquarters
上海
An exterior approach precedent showcasing David Chipperfield Architects' rationalist structural grid and clean horizontal entrance canopy for a corporate headquarters.
- What we like about this project
- The slender proportions of the drop-off canopy uprights contrast sharply with the monumental scale of the main tower grid.
Materials
- concrete
- glass
- metal
- stone
Visual identifiers
- deep-structural-grid
- office-tower
- canopy-entrance
- curtain-wall
Style tags
- rationalist
- contemporary
- minimalist
Visual tags
- corporate-headquarters
- grid-facade
- rationalist
- civic
- institutional
- Geometry
- A tall, orthogonal tower featuring a deep structural grid facade meets a lower horizontal canopy marking the ground floor drop-off zone.
- Facade system
- Precast or stone-clad deep rectilinear structural frame with recessed multi-pane window assemblies.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame with a heavy exterior column grid carrying floor slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story corporate headquarters tower juxtaposed against a single-story vehicular porte-cochère.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight creating soft, even illumination and subtle shadows across the grid and paving.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, orderly, and monumental institutional ambiance.
- Environmental context
- Open landscaped campus setting with paved vehicular roads and planting beds surrounding the headquarters.
- Spatial experience
- The composition guides the eye from the open vehicular approach underneath the clean horizontal canopy toward the monumental vertical tower facade.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong vertical and horizontal rectilinear rhythm established by the multi-story facade grid contrasted with the linear canopy.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rationalist corporate architecture
- Program
- Corporate headquarters office building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- concrete, glass, metal, stone
- Visual identifiers
- deep-structural-grid, office-tower, canopy-entrance, curtain-wall
- Style tags
- rationalist, contemporary, minimalist
- Visual tags
- corporate-headquarters, grid-facade, rationalist, civic, institutional
- Geometry
- A tall, orthogonal tower featuring a deep structural grid facade meets a lower horizontal canopy marking the ground floor drop-off zone.
- Facade system
- Precast or stone-clad deep rectilinear structural frame with recessed multi-pane window assemblies.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame with a heavy exterior column grid carrying floor slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story corporate headquarters tower juxtaposed against a single-story vehicular porte-cochère.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight creating soft, even illumination and subtle shadows across the grid and paving.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, orderly, and monumental institutional ambiance.
- Environmental context
- Open landscaped campus setting with paved vehicular roads and planting beds surrounding the headquarters.
- Spatial experience
- The composition guides the eye from the open vehicular approach underneath the clean horizontal canopy toward the monumental vertical tower facade.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong vertical and horizontal rectilinear rhythm established by the multi-story facade grid contrasted with the linear canopy.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rationalist corporate architecture
- Program
- Corporate headquarters office building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture