Solar Trees Marketplace
2024
An exterior street view of a biophilic marketplace structure demonstrating complex timber-louvered column canopies and multi-level outdoor circulation.
- What we like about this project
- The radial timber fins taper smoothly from the column shafts into delicate overhead canopy slats.
Materials
- engineered-timber
- glass
- concrete-paving
- steel
Visual identifiers
- timber-columns
- radial-louvers
- cantilevered-canopies
- organic-forms
Style tags
- biophilic
- parametric
- contemporary
- organic
Visual tags
- biophilic
- pavilion
- marketplace
- parametric
- urban-canopy
- Geometry
- Multi-tiered organic column structures branch outwards into large circular canopy rings with radial louvers, creating layered cantilevered overhangs.
- Facade system
- Open-air structural timber columns with slatted cantilevered shading rings and recessed glass storefronts behind.
- Structural guess
- Steel core wrapped in curved engineered timber cladding supporting cantilevered rib assemblies.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story civic pavilion scale; the main columns rise about three stories high.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused daylight from a clear sky casting gentle vertical shadows through the radial timber louvers.
- Atmosphere
- Airy, natural, and sculptural, with filtered light creating a rhythmic play of shadow and warmth.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with paved pedestrian plaza, mature trees, and a reflecting pool in the foreground.
- Spatial experience
- The deep overhangs and open colonnade frame a sheltered walkway along the street edge, blending interior circulation with public plaza space.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical fluting of the columns transforms into radial canopy ribs, creating a dynamic structural rhythm.
- Style reading
- Biophilic parametric architecture
- Program
- Commercial marketplace and public pavilion
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- engineered-timber, glass, concrete-paving, steel
- Visual identifiers
- timber-columns, radial-louvers, cantilevered-canopies, organic-forms
- Style tags
- biophilic, parametric, contemporary, organic
- Visual tags
- biophilic, pavilion, marketplace, parametric, urban-canopy
- Geometry
- Multi-tiered organic column structures branch outwards into large circular canopy rings with radial louvers, creating layered cantilevered overhangs.
- Facade system
- Open-air structural timber columns with slatted cantilevered shading rings and recessed glass storefronts behind.
- Structural guess
- Steel core wrapped in curved engineered timber cladding supporting cantilevered rib assemblies.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story civic pavilion scale; the main columns rise about three stories high.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused daylight from a clear sky casting gentle vertical shadows through the radial timber louvers.
- Atmosphere
- Airy, natural, and sculptural, with filtered light creating a rhythmic play of shadow and warmth.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with paved pedestrian plaza, mature trees, and a reflecting pool in the foreground.
- Spatial experience
- The deep overhangs and open colonnade frame a sheltered walkway along the street edge, blending interior circulation with public plaza space.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical fluting of the columns transforms into radial canopy ribs, creating a dynamic structural rhythm.
- Style reading
- Biophilic parametric architecture
- Program
- Commercial marketplace and public pavilion
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture