Drumgeith Community Campus
An exterior architectural precedent of an institutional campus building utilizing buff brick massing connected by a transparent glazed entry pavilion.
- What we like about this project
- The central glazed link sits slightly recessed, emphasizing the solidity of the flanking brick masses.
Materials
- buff-brick
- glass
- metal-framing
- concrete-pavers
Visual identifiers
- buff-brick
- glazed-connector
- institutional-facade
- paved-forecourt
Style tags
- contemporary
- institutional
- functionalist
Visual tags
- institutional
- educational
- brick-facade
- campus
- civic
- daylight-entry
- Geometry
- Symmetrical low-rise institutional campus layout with a central glazed connector linking two larger multi-story brick wings around a paved forecourt.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing buff brick masonry veneer with punched windows and a structural glazed curtain wall at the entrance connector.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or reinforced concrete frame with masonry backup walls.
- Spatial scale
- Three-story institutional scale, framed by a wide pedestrian plaza and modest landscaping.
- Lighting
- Bright midday daylight with clean shadows cast across the facade and forecourt.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, bright, and orderly educational environment.
- Environmental context
- Suburban campus setting with newly planted saplings, paved parking, and open sky.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching via a formal paved pedestrian plaza leads directly into a transparent central entrance hall that bridges the academic wings.
- Composition rhythm
- Balanced and symmetrical composition with vertical punched windows repeated uniformly across the brick wings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional civic architecture
- Program
- School and community campus
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- buff-brick, glass, metal-framing, concrete-pavers
- Visual identifiers
- buff-brick, glazed-connector, institutional-facade, paved-forecourt
- Style tags
- contemporary, institutional, functionalist
- Visual tags
- institutional, educational, brick-facade, campus, civic, daylight-entry
- Geometry
- Symmetrical low-rise institutional campus layout with a central glazed connector linking two larger multi-story brick wings around a paved forecourt.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing buff brick masonry veneer with punched windows and a structural glazed curtain wall at the entrance connector.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or reinforced concrete frame with masonry backup walls.
- Spatial scale
- Three-story institutional scale, framed by a wide pedestrian plaza and modest landscaping.
- Lighting
- Bright midday daylight with clean shadows cast across the facade and forecourt.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, bright, and orderly educational environment.
- Environmental context
- Suburban campus setting with newly planted saplings, paved parking, and open sky.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching via a formal paved pedestrian plaza leads directly into a transparent central entrance hall that bridges the academic wings.
- Composition rhythm
- Balanced and symmetrical composition with vertical punched windows repeated uniformly across the brick wings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional civic architecture
- Program
- School and community campus
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture