5.万国城-POP-Moma-中国北京-960x672
深圳
An exterior facade precedent for large-scale urban towers featuring a uniform, checkerboard masonry skin and a connecting podium base along a major highway.
- What we like about this project
- The checkerboard pattern shifts scale slightly between the towers and the low connecting base podium base, subtly breaking down the mass.
Materials
- terracotta
- brick
- glass
- steel
Visual identifiers
- masonry-grid
- triple-towers
- podium-base
- urban-gate
Style tags
- contemporary
- monumental
- rationalist
Visual tags
- high-rise
- urban-infill
- facade-pattern
- megastructure
- commercial-residential
- Geometry
- Three tall, slender volumetric towers rise from a shared, elongated horizontal base podium, framing open urban space between them.
- Facade system
- Unitized masonry-clad rainscreen system with deeply integrated, repeating punched window openings.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or reinforced concrete core and slab construction with exterior non-structural masonry cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale urban development; the multi-story towers dwarf the highway traffic and surrounding mid-rise structures.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting clear, crisp shadows across the facade grids and washing the highway foreground.
- Atmosphere
- A structured, monumental urban scene animated by highway motion and strong daylight.
- Environmental context
- Urban highway infrastructure in the foreground with multi-lane traffic, surrounded by a dense high-rise city skyline.
- Spatial experience
- The composition reads as a monolithic wall of patterned masonry from the highway, presenting a massive urban gate or screen.
- Composition rhythm
- A dense grid of alternating dark and warm masonry panels creating a regular vertical and horizontal tectonic rhythm.
- Style reading
- Contemporary monumental urbanism
- Program
- Mixed-use residential and commercial towers
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- terracotta, brick, glass, steel
- Visual identifiers
- masonry-grid, triple-towers, podium-base, urban-gate
- Style tags
- contemporary, monumental, rationalist
- Visual tags
- high-rise, urban-infill, facade-pattern, megastructure, commercial-residential
- Geometry
- Three tall, slender volumetric towers rise from a shared, elongated horizontal base podium, framing open urban space between them.
- Facade system
- Unitized masonry-clad rainscreen system with deeply integrated, repeating punched window openings.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or reinforced concrete core and slab construction with exterior non-structural masonry cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale urban development; the multi-story towers dwarf the highway traffic and surrounding mid-rise structures.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting clear, crisp shadows across the facade grids and washing the highway foreground.
- Atmosphere
- A structured, monumental urban scene animated by highway motion and strong daylight.
- Environmental context
- Urban highway infrastructure in the foreground with multi-lane traffic, surrounded by a dense high-rise city skyline.
- Spatial experience
- The composition reads as a monolithic wall of patterned masonry from the highway, presenting a massive urban gate or screen.
- Composition rhythm
- A dense grid of alternating dark and warm masonry panels creating a regular vertical and horizontal tectonic rhythm.
- Style reading
- Contemporary monumental urbanism
- Program
- Mixed-use residential and commercial towers
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture