Living Village
An L-shaped campus courtyard precedent featuring integrated horizontal shading louvers and warm interior lighting against a dramatic evening sky.
- What we like about this project
- The horizontal louvers wrap the corner continuously, blurring the distinction between separate facade elevations.
Materials
- glass
- timber
- aluminum-louvers
- stone-pavers
- granite
Visual identifiers
- red-louvers
- central-quadrangle
- l-shaped-massing
- glazed-perimeter
Style tags
- contemporary
- performance-driven
- mass-timber
Visual tags
- campus
- courtyard
- mass-timber
- academic
- sustainable-facade
- Geometry
- L-shaped two-story bar building framing a central lawn quadrangle with regular structural and fenestration bays.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall system with exterior horizontal sun-shading louvers.
- Structural guess
- Mass timber or steel frame with composite floor slabs
- Spatial scale
- Human scale foreground bench and figures contrasted with a two-story courtyard building perimeter.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with dramatic cloud formations; warm interior lighting spilling through glazed apertures and horizontal shading elements.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and reflective evening atmosphere created by warm interior glows and cool twilight overhead.
- Environmental context
- Open campus courtyard flanked by low-rise academic wings, manicured lawn, and native trees.
- Spatial experience
- Grounded vantage point looking across a formal lawn toward a continuous perimeter facade with deep horizontal louvers.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical window mullions paired with continuous horizontal red louvers forming a rhythmic grid.
- Style reading
- Contemporary campus vernacular with performance-driven facade shading
- Program
- University academic building or student living village
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, timber, aluminum-louvers, stone-pavers, granite
- Visual identifiers
- red-louvers, central-quadrangle, l-shaped-massing, glazed-perimeter
- Style tags
- contemporary, performance-driven, mass-timber
- Visual tags
- campus, courtyard, mass-timber, academic, sustainable-facade
- Geometry
- L-shaped two-story bar building framing a central lawn quadrangle with regular structural and fenestration bays.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall system with exterior horizontal sun-shading louvers.
- Structural guess
- Mass timber or steel frame with composite floor slabs
- Spatial scale
- Human scale foreground bench and figures contrasted with a two-story courtyard building perimeter.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with dramatic cloud formations; warm interior lighting spilling through glazed apertures and horizontal shading elements.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and reflective evening atmosphere created by warm interior glows and cool twilight overhead.
- Environmental context
- Open campus courtyard flanked by low-rise academic wings, manicured lawn, and native trees.
- Spatial experience
- Grounded vantage point looking across a formal lawn toward a continuous perimeter facade with deep horizontal louvers.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical window mullions paired with continuous horizontal red louvers forming a rhythmic grid.
- Style reading
- Contemporary campus vernacular with performance-driven facade shading
- Program
- University academic building or student living village
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture