Manalo & White_Mandrake_DG_30_medium
A multi-level urban courtyard heavily integrated with climbing vegetation and steel balconies, offering a strong precedent for biophilic architecture and deep-facade greening.
- What we like about this project
- Vines cascade so densely from upper tiers that they obscure entire facade bays and bridge undersides.
Materials
- steel
- timber
- masonry
- glass
- foliage
Visual identifiers
- vegetated-facade
- courtyard-balconies
- trailing-vines
- steel-balustrades
Style tags
- biophilic
- contemporary
- green-architecture
Visual tags
- biophilic-design
- courtyard
- urban-oasis
- vertical-garden
- multi-level
- dappled-light
- Geometry
- Stacked multi-level outdoor balconies and bridges wrap an open courtyard volume, creating layered vertical circulation and overhangs.
- Facade system
- Open balcony circulation with delicate metal pickets backed by masonry building walls.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame and concrete slabs supporting cantilevered and bridged balconies.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story courtyard space with human-scaled seating on the lower terrace and overhead walkways spanning several levels.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight filtering through heavy vegetation, creating dappled shadows and high-contrast backlit foliage.
- Atmosphere
- Lush, sheltered, and atmospheric, blending industrial steel elements with wild, overgrown plant life.
- Environmental context
- Urban interior courtyard enclosed by masonry and timber building facades.
- Spatial experience
- Gazing upward reveals a deeply layered vertical garden space where filtered sunlight penetrates dense trailing foliage and steel balustrades.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating horizontal bridge and balcony levels intersected by vertical hanging vines and structural posts.
- Style reading
- Biophilic contemporary urban architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use urban courtyard or residential hospitality terrace
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- steel, timber, masonry, glass, foliage
- Visual identifiers
- vegetated-facade, courtyard-balconies, trailing-vines, steel-balustrades
- Style tags
- biophilic, contemporary, green-architecture
- Visual tags
- biophilic-design, courtyard, urban-oasis, vertical-garden, multi-level, dappled-light
- Geometry
- Stacked multi-level outdoor balconies and bridges wrap an open courtyard volume, creating layered vertical circulation and overhangs.
- Facade system
- Open balcony circulation with delicate metal pickets backed by masonry building walls.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame and concrete slabs supporting cantilevered and bridged balconies.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story courtyard space with human-scaled seating on the lower terrace and overhead walkways spanning several levels.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight filtering through heavy vegetation, creating dappled shadows and high-contrast backlit foliage.
- Atmosphere
- Lush, sheltered, and atmospheric, blending industrial steel elements with wild, overgrown plant life.
- Environmental context
- Urban interior courtyard enclosed by masonry and timber building facades.
- Spatial experience
- Gazing upward reveals a deeply layered vertical garden space where filtered sunlight penetrates dense trailing foliage and steel balustrades.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating horizontal bridge and balcony levels intersected by vertical hanging vines and structural posts.
- Style reading
- Biophilic contemporary urban architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use urban courtyard or residential hospitality terrace
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture