ANTHC Parking Garage
An exterior facade precedent for large parking structures, utilizing horizontal louvers for natural ventilation and visual screening alongside a transparent corner stair tower.
- What we like about this project
- The fully glazed corner stair tower provides total transparency compared to the opaque screened parking bays.
Materials
- metal-louvers
- glass
- concrete
- masonry
Visual identifiers
- louvered-facade
- glass-stair-tower
- parking-structure
- pedestrian-skybridge
Style tags
- contemporary
- functionalist
- institutional
Visual tags
- parking-garage
- louvers
- facade-screen
- campus-architecture
- glazed-tower
- Geometry
- Multi-tier rectangular volume with a prominent glazed vertical stair tower anchoring the corner intersection.
- Facade system
- Horizontal metal or terracotta louver screening system mounted on a parking structure framework.
- Structural guess
- Precast concrete parking structure frame with steel framing for the stair tower and skybridge.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-level parking structure viewed from across the street at pedestrian eye level.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting crisp shadows across the facade louvers under a partly cloudy sky.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, bright, and orderly civic environment under dramatic clouds.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or campus street edge with mature trees, sidewalks, and an elevated pedestrian skybridge connecting to another building.
- Spatial experience
- The long facade stretches horizontally along the street, its rhythmic louvers softening the massive scale of the parking structure.
- Composition rhythm
- Repetitive horizontal bands of louvers broken by the vertical glass accent of the corner stair core.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional infrastructure
- Program
- Parking garage with circulation core and pedestrian skybridge connection
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- metal-louvers, glass, concrete, masonry
- Visual identifiers
- louvered-facade, glass-stair-tower, parking-structure, pedestrian-skybridge
- Style tags
- contemporary, functionalist, institutional
- Visual tags
- parking-garage, louvers, facade-screen, campus-architecture, glazed-tower
- Geometry
- Multi-tier rectangular volume with a prominent glazed vertical stair tower anchoring the corner intersection.
- Facade system
- Horizontal metal or terracotta louver screening system mounted on a parking structure framework.
- Structural guess
- Precast concrete parking structure frame with steel framing for the stair tower and skybridge.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-level parking structure viewed from across the street at pedestrian eye level.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting crisp shadows across the facade louvers under a partly cloudy sky.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, bright, and orderly civic environment under dramatic clouds.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or campus street edge with mature trees, sidewalks, and an elevated pedestrian skybridge connecting to another building.
- Spatial experience
- The long facade stretches horizontally along the street, its rhythmic louvers softening the massive scale of the parking structure.
- Composition rhythm
- Repetitive horizontal bands of louvers broken by the vertical glass accent of the corner stair core.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional infrastructure
- Program
- Parking garage with circulation core and pedestrian skybridge connection
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture