深圳礁石书馆
广州
A striking resort facade precedent combining a solid terracotta base with a lightweight translucent tower and dramatic curved cutouts, ideal for studies in material contrast and night lighting.
- What we like about this project
- A circular structural cutout intersects the seam between the solid red mass and the translucent tower.
Materials
- terracotta-stucco
- translucent-panels
- glass
- steel
Visual identifiers
- translucent-tower
- terracotta-base
- central-arch
- circular-cutout
Style tags
- contemporary
- expressive
- material-contrast
Visual tags
- hospitality
- resort
- translucent-facade
- archway
- dusk-illumination
- Geometry
- Symmetrical front composition anchored by a heavy terracotta-colored base volume, bisected by a towering translucent rectilinear volume with a circular cutout intersecting the two.
- Facade system
- Combination of solid rendered masonry walls and translucent panel curtain walling over a structural frame.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with steel support structure for the upper translucent tower volume.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story resort building with a grand scale defined by the tall central tower and wide ground-floor portal.
- Lighting
- Twilight conditions with interior illumination glowing through the translucent upper tower and ground-floor display window, contrasting with cool ambient dusk light.
- Atmosphere
- Welcoming and luminous, balancing heavy earthy masses with ethereal glowing panels at dusk.
- Environmental context
- Paved urban street or courtyard context flanked by adjacent lower-scale buildings.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the paved forecourt, the deep central arch frames the active retail and stair interior, while the glowing upper tower draws the eye upward.
- Composition rhythm
- Tripartite vertical stack featuring a heavy horizontal base arch, a contrasting vertical translucent tower, and punched circular windows on the side wings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary experiential resort architecture
- Program
- Resort lobby, bookstore, and cultural facility
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- terracotta-stucco, translucent-panels, glass, steel
- Visual identifiers
- translucent-tower, terracotta-base, central-arch, circular-cutout
- Style tags
- contemporary, expressive, material-contrast
- Visual tags
- hospitality, resort, translucent-facade, archway, dusk-illumination
- Geometry
- Symmetrical front composition anchored by a heavy terracotta-colored base volume, bisected by a towering translucent rectilinear volume with a circular cutout intersecting the two.
- Facade system
- Combination of solid rendered masonry walls and translucent panel curtain walling over a structural frame.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with steel support structure for the upper translucent tower volume.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story resort building with a grand scale defined by the tall central tower and wide ground-floor portal.
- Lighting
- Twilight conditions with interior illumination glowing through the translucent upper tower and ground-floor display window, contrasting with cool ambient dusk light.
- Atmosphere
- Welcoming and luminous, balancing heavy earthy masses with ethereal glowing panels at dusk.
- Environmental context
- Paved urban street or courtyard context flanked by adjacent lower-scale buildings.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the paved forecourt, the deep central arch frames the active retail and stair interior, while the glowing upper tower draws the eye upward.
- Composition rhythm
- Tripartite vertical stack featuring a heavy horizontal base arch, a contrasting vertical translucent tower, and punched circular windows on the side wings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary experiential resort architecture
- Program
- Resort lobby, bookstore, and cultural facility
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture