Goddard – Riverton
A suburban educational facility exterior combining a durable textured stone base, metal panels, and protective entry canopies.
- What we like about this project
- Angled tie-rod awnings add structural legibility to the otherwise flat facade composition.
Materials
- stone-masonry
- metal-panels
- glass
- aluminum-storefront
- steel
Visual identifiers
- metal-wall-panels
- stone-base
- tie-rod-canopies
- punched-commercial-windows
Style tags
- contemporary
- institutional
- commercial
Visual tags
- commercial
- educational
- suburban
- facade-design
- low-rise
- Geometry
- One-story commercial massing with a slightly raised central parapet over the main entrance, establishing a horizontal composition.
- Facade system
- Combination of split-face masonry block base and composite metal panel rainscreen upper walls.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete masonry unit bearing walls with bar joist roof structure.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story institutional scale, friendly and approachable for young children.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting crisp, short shadows under canopies and window headers.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, bright, and orderly suburban educational facility.
- Environmental context
- Suburban commercial or institutional setting with a paved parking lot in the foreground and mountains in the distance.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across a front parking lot and concrete walkway, with a clear, sheltered main entrance marked by tie-rod canopies.
- Composition rhythm
- Alternating vertical panel joints and regular window bays punctuated by the central recessed entrance.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial institutional architecture
- Program
- Preschool / Early childhood education center
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stone-masonry, metal-panels, glass, aluminum-storefront, steel
- Visual identifiers
- metal-wall-panels, stone-base, tie-rod-canopies, punched-commercial-windows
- Style tags
- contemporary, institutional, commercial
- Visual tags
- commercial, educational, suburban, facade-design, low-rise
- Geometry
- One-story commercial massing with a slightly raised central parapet over the main entrance, establishing a horizontal composition.
- Facade system
- Combination of split-face masonry block base and composite metal panel rainscreen upper walls.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete masonry unit bearing walls with bar joist roof structure.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story institutional scale, friendly and approachable for young children.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting crisp, short shadows under canopies and window headers.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, bright, and orderly suburban educational facility.
- Environmental context
- Suburban commercial or institutional setting with a paved parking lot in the foreground and mountains in the distance.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across a front parking lot and concrete walkway, with a clear, sheltered main entrance marked by tie-rod canopies.
- Composition rhythm
- Alternating vertical panel joints and regular window bays punctuated by the central recessed entrance.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial institutional architecture
- Program
- Preschool / Early childhood education center
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture