高树自来水办公厅
上海
An exterior architectural precedent for sculptural, undulating facade panels layered over strip glazing, ideal for office and institutional headquarters.
- What we like about this project
- The upper facade panels curve softly like fabric drapery, contrasting sharply with the rigid rectilinear frame beneath.
Materials
- painted-metal
- glass
- concrete
- planting
Visual identifiers
- undulating-white-panels
- continuous-glazing
- reflective-foreground
- vertical-fluting
Style tags
- contemporary
- sculptural
- commercial
Visual tags
- corporate-office
- facade-system
- contemporary
- wet-reflection
- rhythmic-massing
- Geometry
- Multi-story orthogonal massing articulated with rhythmic, vertically fluted or draped white panel bands wrapping upper levels over a transparent glazed ground floor.
- Facade system
- Custom formed metal or composite panels creating vertical draped waves, paired with ribbon windows and glazed storefront ground level.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or reinforced concrete structure with slab-edge cantilevers supporting the decorative facade panels.
- Spatial scale
- Three-story office building scaled to a corporate or municipal campus.
- Lighting
- Overcast, moody sky casting diffuse daylight with bright interior illumination glowing through the continuous glazing bands.
- Atmosphere
- Somber and atmospheric due to the overcast stormy sky contrasting with the clean white facade and warm interior lighting.
- Environmental context
- Low-lying foreground with native grasses, a wet reflective surface or pool, and mature sparse trees framing the urban office frontage.
- Spatial experience
- The building presents an imposing yet dynamic front, with the reflective pool and planting in the foreground softening the institutional scale.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular horizontal tiers accented by the undulating vertical pleats or folds across the upper facade layers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary sculptural commercial architecture
- Program
- Municipal or corporate office administration building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- painted-metal, glass, concrete, planting
- Visual identifiers
- undulating-white-panels, continuous-glazing, reflective-foreground, vertical-fluting
- Style tags
- contemporary, sculptural, commercial
- Visual tags
- corporate-office, facade-system, contemporary, wet-reflection, rhythmic-massing
- Geometry
- Multi-story orthogonal massing articulated with rhythmic, vertically fluted or draped white panel bands wrapping upper levels over a transparent glazed ground floor.
- Facade system
- Custom formed metal or composite panels creating vertical draped waves, paired with ribbon windows and glazed storefront ground level.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or reinforced concrete structure with slab-edge cantilevers supporting the decorative facade panels.
- Spatial scale
- Three-story office building scaled to a corporate or municipal campus.
- Lighting
- Overcast, moody sky casting diffuse daylight with bright interior illumination glowing through the continuous glazing bands.
- Atmosphere
- Somber and atmospheric due to the overcast stormy sky contrasting with the clean white facade and warm interior lighting.
- Environmental context
- Low-lying foreground with native grasses, a wet reflective surface or pool, and mature sparse trees framing the urban office frontage.
- Spatial experience
- The building presents an imposing yet dynamic front, with the reflective pool and planting in the foreground softening the institutional scale.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular horizontal tiers accented by the undulating vertical pleats or folds across the upper facade layers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary sculptural commercial architecture
- Program
- Municipal or corporate office administration building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture