Multi-image composition of a red brick and concrete building embedded
昆明
A complex project precedent by 筑象建筑 demonstrating how heavy red brick and raw concrete volumes can be interwoven with a mature forest canopy using generous covered verandas.
- What we like about this project
- Living tree trunks pass directly through openings in the heavy concrete roof slab of the veranda.
Materials
- red-brick
- exposed-concrete
- timber
- glass
Visual identifiers
- red-brick-facade
- exposed-concrete
- tree-pierced-veranda
- sloping-forest-setting
Style tags
- contemporary
- regionalist
- tropical
- brutalist-inflected
Visual tags
- contextual
- nature-integrated
- tropical-modernism
- indoor-outdoor
- concrete-and-brick
- Geometry
- Rectilinear volumes clad in reddish brick and cast concrete step down a wooded hillside, featuring deep covered walkways and horizontal ribbon windows.
- Facade system
- Red brick masonry paired with cast-in-place concrete beams and floor plates.
- Structural guess
- Cast-in-place concrete frame with masonry infill walls.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise residential or cultural scale with expansive double-height volumes and generous outdoor corridors.
- Lighting
- Diffused daylight filtering through overhead tree foliage, casting soft shadows across raw concrete and brick surfaces.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and shaded, merging the coolness of raw concrete with the organic warmth of red brick and living trees.
- Environmental context
- A dense, sloping forest setting in Kunming with mature trees piercing through building structures.
- Spatial experience
- Movement flows between enclosed masonry rooms and open, tree-pierced concrete verandas that blend the architecture into the surrounding canopy.
- Composition rhythm
- Alternating vertical masonry massing with horizontal concrete floor plates and structural columns.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regionalist architecture
- Program
- Residential retreat or boutique cultural center
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- red-brick, exposed-concrete, timber, glass
- Visual identifiers
- red-brick-facade, exposed-concrete, tree-pierced-veranda, sloping-forest-setting
- Style tags
- contemporary, regionalist, tropical, brutalist-inflected
- Visual tags
- contextual, nature-integrated, tropical-modernism, indoor-outdoor, concrete-and-brick
- Geometry
- Rectilinear volumes clad in reddish brick and cast concrete step down a wooded hillside, featuring deep covered walkways and horizontal ribbon windows.
- Facade system
- Red brick masonry paired with cast-in-place concrete beams and floor plates.
- Structural guess
- Cast-in-place concrete frame with masonry infill walls.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise residential or cultural scale with expansive double-height volumes and generous outdoor corridors.
- Lighting
- Diffused daylight filtering through overhead tree foliage, casting soft shadows across raw concrete and brick surfaces.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and shaded, merging the coolness of raw concrete with the organic warmth of red brick and living trees.
- Environmental context
- A dense, sloping forest setting in Kunming with mature trees piercing through building structures.
- Spatial experience
- Movement flows between enclosed masonry rooms and open, tree-pierced concrete verandas that blend the architecture into the surrounding canopy.
- Composition rhythm
- Alternating vertical masonry massing with horizontal concrete floor plates and structural columns.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regionalist architecture
- Program
- Residential retreat or boutique cultural center
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture