Ferrari Centro Stile
An exterior precedent for complex curved diagrid envelopes combined with patterned triangular shading panels, useful for high-tech corporate and automotive design facilities.
- What we like about this project
- The triangular panel pattern shifts in density across the curve to create a pixelated graphic effect.
Materials
- glass
- steel
- aluminum
Visual identifiers
- diagrid-facade
- triangular-panels
- curved-glass
- corporate-headquarters
Style tags
- high-tech
- contemporary
- futuristic
Visual tags
- high-tech
- curvilinear
- double-skin
- corporate
- transparent
- Geometry
- Curvilinear multi-story volume featuring a sweeping compound curve across the upper facade and an undulating overhang above the ground floor.
- Facade system
- Glass diagrid curtain wall system integrated with patterned opaque triangular infill/shading panels.
- Structural guess
- Steel diagrid space frame supporting a curved glazed envelope.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story corporate building massing, dwarfing foreground trees and pedestrian pathways.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight catching the faceted glass and steel diagrid, creating strong reflections and contrasting shaded triangular panels.
- Atmosphere
- Sleek, precise, and dynamic, reflecting high-performance engineering themes.
- Environmental context
- Surrounded by landscaped pathways, mature trees, and paved industrial-corporate campus grounds.
- Spatial experience
- The expansive glazed facade creates a transparent, high-tech threshold between the corporate testing or design campus exterior and the interior workspace.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating triangular and diamond geometry across the entire diagrid surface creates a continuous rhythmic texture.
- Style reading
- High-tech corporate architecture
- Program
- Automotive design studio and office headquarters
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, steel, aluminum
- Visual identifiers
- diagrid-facade, triangular-panels, curved-glass, corporate-headquarters
- Style tags
- high-tech, contemporary, futuristic
- Visual tags
- high-tech, curvilinear, double-skin, corporate, transparent
- Geometry
- Curvilinear multi-story volume featuring a sweeping compound curve across the upper facade and an undulating overhang above the ground floor.
- Facade system
- Glass diagrid curtain wall system integrated with patterned opaque triangular infill/shading panels.
- Structural guess
- Steel diagrid space frame supporting a curved glazed envelope.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story corporate building massing, dwarfing foreground trees and pedestrian pathways.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight catching the faceted glass and steel diagrid, creating strong reflections and contrasting shaded triangular panels.
- Atmosphere
- Sleek, precise, and dynamic, reflecting high-performance engineering themes.
- Environmental context
- Surrounded by landscaped pathways, mature trees, and paved industrial-corporate campus grounds.
- Spatial experience
- The expansive glazed facade creates a transparent, high-tech threshold between the corporate testing or design campus exterior and the interior workspace.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating triangular and diamond geometry across the entire diagrid surface creates a continuous rhythmic texture.
- Style reading
- High-tech corporate architecture
- Program
- Automotive design studio and office headquarters
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture