UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios
An exterior precedent showcasing how corrugated metal paneling with curved corners can wrap a low-rise art studio while a glazed corner carve-out invites public visibility.
- What we like about this project
- The seamless transition of the corrugated metal cladding around the radiused corners.
Materials
- corrugated-metal
- glass
- steel
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- corrugated-metal-cladding
- curved-corners
- glazed-corner-entrance
- monolithic-mass
Style tags
- contemporary
- industrial
- minimalist
Visual tags
- industrial-context
- institutional
- facade-rhythm
- low-rise
- dusk-lighting
- Geometry
- Low-slung orthogonal volume with softly curved corners and a glazed corner cutout breaking the continuous perimeter.
- Facade system
- Corrugated metal rainscreen with radiused corner panels and full-height structural glass at the cutaway entrance.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with metal deck roof and light-gauge or concrete masonry perimeter backing.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story low-rise institutional building stretching wide across the urban block.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with artificial illumination glowing from interior glazing and streetlamps, casting soft shadows across the facade.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, industrial dusk atmosphere softened by warm interior lighting spilling onto the street.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or industrial street edge with parked cars, utility poles overhead, and distant hills.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the street, the building presents a monolithic textured fence that reveals interior activity at the transparent corner lobby cut.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical fluting on the metal panels creates a tight, continuous linear rhythm along the facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary industrial institutional
- Program
- University art studios and gallery
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- corrugated-metal, glass, steel, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- corrugated-metal-cladding, curved-corners, glazed-corner-entrance, monolithic-mass
- Style tags
- contemporary, industrial, minimalist
- Visual tags
- industrial-context, institutional, facade-rhythm, low-rise, dusk-lighting
- Geometry
- Low-slung orthogonal volume with softly curved corners and a glazed corner cutout breaking the continuous perimeter.
- Facade system
- Corrugated metal rainscreen with radiused corner panels and full-height structural glass at the cutaway entrance.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with metal deck roof and light-gauge or concrete masonry perimeter backing.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story low-rise institutional building stretching wide across the urban block.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with artificial illumination glowing from interior glazing and streetlamps, casting soft shadows across the facade.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, industrial dusk atmosphere softened by warm interior lighting spilling onto the street.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or industrial street edge with parked cars, utility poles overhead, and distant hills.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the street, the building presents a monolithic textured fence that reveals interior activity at the transparent corner lobby cut.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical fluting on the metal panels creates a tight, continuous linear rhythm along the facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary industrial institutional
- Program
- University art studios and gallery
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture