Street-level facade view of a contemporary infill building with
An urban infill precedent by HLM Architects demonstrating how vertical louvers and glazed ground floors can successfully bridge between historic brick buildings.
- What we like about this project
- Gold signage lettering integrated seamlessly across the facade framing directly above the entrance level.
Materials
- glass
- metal
- terracotta-louvers
- stone-panels
Visual identifiers
- vertical-louvers
- infill-architecture
- glazed-ground-floor
- contextual-massing
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- rationalist
Visual tags
- urban-infill
- facade-rhythm
- contemporary-historic-mix
- street-facade
- civic-facade
- Geometry
- Rectangular infill mass set between traditional masonry buildings, featuring a multi-story glazed storefront and rhythmic vertical facade fins.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall with vertical terracotta or metal louver fins and ground-level storefront glazing.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with composite floor slabs and curtain wall envelope.
- Spatial scale
- Four-story contemporary building scaled to match the height and rhythm of adjacent nineteenth-century urban fabric.
- Lighting
- Diffused daylight under a partly cloudy sky, creating soft shadows across the facade louvers and street.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, civic urban presence blending modern transparency with historic street character.
- Environmental context
- Urban street frontage in a historic district flanked by traditional multi-story red brick architecture.
- Spatial experience
- The building sits back from the urban street edge, presenting a transparent and articulated facade that mediates between older surrounding structures.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical louver fins establish a repeating rhythmic cadence across the middle levels.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual infill
- Program
- Healthcare engineering institute or academic office
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, metal, terracotta-louvers, stone-panels
- Visual identifiers
- vertical-louvers, infill-architecture, glazed-ground-floor, contextual-massing
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, rationalist
- Visual tags
- urban-infill, facade-rhythm, contemporary-historic-mix, street-facade, civic-facade
- Geometry
- Rectangular infill mass set between traditional masonry buildings, featuring a multi-story glazed storefront and rhythmic vertical facade fins.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall with vertical terracotta or metal louver fins and ground-level storefront glazing.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with composite floor slabs and curtain wall envelope.
- Spatial scale
- Four-story contemporary building scaled to match the height and rhythm of adjacent nineteenth-century urban fabric.
- Lighting
- Diffused daylight under a partly cloudy sky, creating soft shadows across the facade louvers and street.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, civic urban presence blending modern transparency with historic street character.
- Environmental context
- Urban street frontage in a historic district flanked by traditional multi-story red brick architecture.
- Spatial experience
- The building sits back from the urban street edge, presenting a transparent and articulated facade that mediates between older surrounding structures.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical louver fins establish a repeating rhythmic cadence across the middle levels.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual infill
- Program
- Healthcare engineering institute or academic office
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture