FARSHID MOUSSAVI OBE RA RIBA
An exterior facade precedent illustrating faceted, outward-leaning metallic cladding and angled strip windows that actively reflect the surrounding urban context.
- What we like about this project
- The entire upper mass leans significantly forward, turning the facade into a giant mirror reflecting the street below.
Materials
- metal-panels
- glass
- steel
Visual identifiers
- metallic-cladding
- faceted-facade
- slanted-windows
- outward-leaning-mass
Style tags
- contemporary
- deconstructivist
- parametric
Visual tags
- reflective
- dynamic-geometry
- metallic
- contemporary
- urban-landmark
- Geometry
- An outward-leaning multi-faceted volume clad in reflective metallic panels, punctuated by slanted vertical strip windows arranged in a rhythmic sequence.
- Facade system
- Faceted metallic rainscreen with flush-integrated vertical strip glazing.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with custom angled diagrid or cantilevered structural framing to support the outward lean.
- Spatial scale
- Large civic or commercial scale; multi-story facade towering over street-level pedestrians.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight reflecting dynamically off polished metallic cladding, producing sharp contrast against dark glass areas.
- Atmosphere
- Moody and dynamic, driven by the reflective interplay between overcast sky and the heavily faceted metallic skin.
- Environmental context
- Urban intersection with traffic lights, utility poles, and blurred foreground foliage framing the building.
- Spatial experience
- The shifting reflective surfaces break down the building scale from the street, capturing distorted streetscapes and sky while leaning dramatically outward over the pedestrian realm.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic vertical strip openings breaking across a continuous folded metallic plane.
- Style reading
- Contemporary parametric deconstructivism
- Program
- Cultural or commercial civic building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- metal-panels, glass, steel
- Visual identifiers
- metallic-cladding, faceted-facade, slanted-windows, outward-leaning-mass
- Style tags
- contemporary, deconstructivist, parametric
- Visual tags
- reflective, dynamic-geometry, metallic, contemporary, urban-landmark
- Geometry
- An outward-leaning multi-faceted volume clad in reflective metallic panels, punctuated by slanted vertical strip windows arranged in a rhythmic sequence.
- Facade system
- Faceted metallic rainscreen with flush-integrated vertical strip glazing.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with custom angled diagrid or cantilevered structural framing to support the outward lean.
- Spatial scale
- Large civic or commercial scale; multi-story facade towering over street-level pedestrians.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight reflecting dynamically off polished metallic cladding, producing sharp contrast against dark glass areas.
- Atmosphere
- Moody and dynamic, driven by the reflective interplay between overcast sky and the heavily faceted metallic skin.
- Environmental context
- Urban intersection with traffic lights, utility poles, and blurred foreground foliage framing the building.
- Spatial experience
- The shifting reflective surfaces break down the building scale from the street, capturing distorted streetscapes and sky while leaning dramatically outward over the pedestrian realm.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic vertical strip openings breaking across a continuous folded metallic plane.
- Style reading
- Contemporary parametric deconstructivism
- Program
- Cultural or commercial civic building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture