Multistory interior atrium with stacked concrete balconies and skylight
An interior architectural precedent for multistory atriums utilizing stacked concrete balconies and a central overhead skylight to unify vertical circulation.
- What we like about this project
- Warm wood doors and integrated lockers softly punctuate the cold concrete perimeter wall.
Materials
- exposed-concrete
- wood
- glass
Visual identifiers
- concrete-atrium
- stacked-balconies
- overhead-skylight
- multistory-void
Style tags
- contemporary
- brutalist
- minimal
- institutional
Visual tags
- atrium
- monolithic
- daylight-core
- brutalist-influence
- circulation
- Geometry
- Symmetrical central atrium with stacked concrete gallery walkways wrapping around an open vertical core under a large rectangular skylight.
- Structural guess
- Cast-in-place concrete frame with cantilevered floor slabs forming the balconies.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story atrium spanning approximately four levels with human-scaled doors and lockers set into the perimeter.
- Lighting
- Bright ambient daylight entering from a massive ceiling skylight, casting soft shadows across the lower floor plates.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet, monumental, and flooded with diffuse overhead light reflecting off raw concrete surfaces.
- Environmental context
- Interior institutional or educational building core with multi-level circulation galleries.
- Spatial experience
- A dramatic vertical volume draws the eye upward through successive layers of horizontal concrete balconies toward daylight.
- Composition rhythm
- Stacked horizontal bands of concrete balustrades repeating symmetrically across four vertical levels.
- Style reading
- Contemporary brutalist-minimalist institutional interior
- Program
- Educational or institutional facility atrium
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- exposed-concrete, wood, glass
- Visual identifiers
- concrete-atrium, stacked-balconies, overhead-skylight, multistory-void
- Style tags
- contemporary, brutalist, minimal, institutional
- Visual tags
- atrium, monolithic, daylight-core, brutalist-influence, circulation
- Geometry
- Symmetrical central atrium with stacked concrete gallery walkways wrapping around an open vertical core under a large rectangular skylight.
- Structural guess
- Cast-in-place concrete frame with cantilevered floor slabs forming the balconies.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story atrium spanning approximately four levels with human-scaled doors and lockers set into the perimeter.
- Lighting
- Bright ambient daylight entering from a massive ceiling skylight, casting soft shadows across the lower floor plates.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet, monumental, and flooded with diffuse overhead light reflecting off raw concrete surfaces.
- Environmental context
- Interior institutional or educational building core with multi-level circulation galleries.
- Spatial experience
- A dramatic vertical volume draws the eye upward through successive layers of horizontal concrete balconies toward daylight.
- Composition rhythm
- Stacked horizontal bands of concrete balustrades repeating symmetrically across four vertical levels.
- Style reading
- Contemporary brutalist-minimalist institutional interior
- Program
- Educational or institutional facility atrium
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture