SwimQuest – Westfield
An exterior commercial facade precedent utilizing contrasting wood slats and circular porthole windows within a neutral grey stucco mass to brand a swim facility.
- What we like about this project
- Scattered circular porthole windows of varying sizes integrated into the wood rainscreen facade.
Materials
- stucco
- wood
- glass
- metal
Visual identifiers
- wood-slat-cladding
- circular-windows
- grey-stucco
- recessed-entry
Style tags
- contemporary
- commercial
- functional
Visual tags
- commercial
- suburban
- renovated-facade
- signage
- single-story
- Geometry
- Single-story low-slung orthogonal volume with a recessed central entry portal framed in vertical wood cladding and punctuated by round windows.
- Facade system
- Stucco finish over exterior insulation finishing system combined with vertical wood slat rainscreen panels.
- Structural guess
- Low-rise steel frame or masonry bearing wall with flat roof structure.
- Spatial scale
- Low-profile single-story commercial scale designed for pedestrian and vehicular approach.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight from an upper-right angle casting soft shadows beneath the roof overhang and deep reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Approachable, clean, and neatly structured suburban institutional presence.
- Environmental context
- Suburban commercial strip with a concrete sidewalk, organized hedge planting bed, and asphalt parking lot.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the sidewalk via a gravel and hedge buffer leads past a parking area to a clearly marked, recessed central doorway.
- Composition rhythm
- Asymmetrical central wood-clad bay contrasting against solid grey stucco wings, punctuated by scattered circular openings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial retrofit
- Program
- Indoor swim school / aquatic facility
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stucco, wood, glass, metal
- Visual identifiers
- wood-slat-cladding, circular-windows, grey-stucco, recessed-entry
- Style tags
- contemporary, commercial, functional
- Visual tags
- commercial, suburban, renovated-facade, signage, single-story
- Geometry
- Single-story low-slung orthogonal volume with a recessed central entry portal framed in vertical wood cladding and punctuated by round windows.
- Facade system
- Stucco finish over exterior insulation finishing system combined with vertical wood slat rainscreen panels.
- Structural guess
- Low-rise steel frame or masonry bearing wall with flat roof structure.
- Spatial scale
- Low-profile single-story commercial scale designed for pedestrian and vehicular approach.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight from an upper-right angle casting soft shadows beneath the roof overhang and deep reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Approachable, clean, and neatly structured suburban institutional presence.
- Environmental context
- Suburban commercial strip with a concrete sidewalk, organized hedge planting bed, and asphalt parking lot.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the sidewalk via a gravel and hedge buffer leads past a parking area to a clearly marked, recessed central doorway.
- Composition rhythm
- Asymmetrical central wood-clad bay contrasting against solid grey stucco wings, punctuated by scattered circular openings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial retrofit
- Program
- Indoor swim school / aquatic facility
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture