Freebooter
An exterior precedent for using continuous vertical timber louvers and curved balconies to soften an urban residential facade while controlling solar gain and privacy.
- What we like about this project
- The undulating curvature of the timber screen defies the rigid rectilinear form of the adjacent buildings.
Materials
- timber
- glass
- steel
Visual identifiers
- timber-louver-screen
- curved-balconies
- vertical-slats
- double-skin-facade
Style tags
- contemporary
- biophilic
- timber
- organic-modern
Visual tags
- timber-architecture
- biophilic
- residential
- facade-screen
- daylight-control
- Geometry
- Multi-story residential volume with undulating, curved balconies wrapped continuously in vertical timber louver screens.
- Facade system
- Double-layer facade featuring a continuous exterior timber louver screen over recessed glazing and balconies.
- Structural guess
- Hybrid mass timber and concrete core construction supporting cantilevered balconies.
- Spatial scale
- Four to five stories high, scaled to fit urban residential typology.
- Lighting
- Golden hour sunlight strikes the timber fins, casting deep striped shadows and highlighting the curvature of the screening system.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, tactile, and dynamic as sunlight interacts with the dense vertical timber rhythm.
- Environmental context
- Urban infill context adjacent to neighboring residential blocks and a paved public street with a hedge and young trees.
- Spatial experience
- The facade presents a dynamic, permeable threshold between private outdoor terraces and the public street, offering controlled transparency and filtered sunlight.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic vertical wooden slats create a continuous texture that wraps around the curved geometry of the corner balconies.
- Style reading
- Contemporary biophilic timber architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, glass, steel
- Visual identifiers
- timber-louver-screen, curved-balconies, vertical-slats, double-skin-facade
- Style tags
- contemporary, biophilic, timber, organic-modern
- Visual tags
- timber-architecture, biophilic, residential, facade-screen, daylight-control
- Geometry
- Multi-story residential volume with undulating, curved balconies wrapped continuously in vertical timber louver screens.
- Facade system
- Double-layer facade featuring a continuous exterior timber louver screen over recessed glazing and balconies.
- Structural guess
- Hybrid mass timber and concrete core construction supporting cantilevered balconies.
- Spatial scale
- Four to five stories high, scaled to fit urban residential typology.
- Lighting
- Golden hour sunlight strikes the timber fins, casting deep striped shadows and highlighting the curvature of the screening system.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, tactile, and dynamic as sunlight interacts with the dense vertical timber rhythm.
- Environmental context
- Urban infill context adjacent to neighboring residential blocks and a paved public street with a hedge and young trees.
- Spatial experience
- The facade presents a dynamic, permeable threshold between private outdoor terraces and the public street, offering controlled transparency and filtered sunlight.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic vertical wooden slats create a continuous texture that wraps around the curved geometry of the corner balconies.
- Style reading
- Contemporary biophilic timber architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture