NBCUniversal Campus Project
An exterior architectural precedent showcasing a large curved louvered envelope and an inviting glazed ground-floor condition for corporate or civic campuses.
Materials
- aluminum
- glass
- concrete
- steel
Visual identifiers
- curved-facade
- louver-screen
- recessed-ground-floor
- cantilevered-soffit
Style tags
- contemporary
- curvilinear
- corporate
Visual tags
- corporate-campus
- facade-screen
- dusk-lighting
- curvilinear
- glazed-ground-floor
- Geometry
- Multi-tiered cylindrical and stepped massing wrapped in a continuous curved louver screen system under a clear sky.
- Facade system
- Custom vertical louver screen system over a multi-level glazed and solid envelope.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with curved perimeter columns and cantilevered floor plates.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story civic or corporate campus building dominating the immediate landscape.
- Lighting
- Twilight conditions with warm interior lighting glowing through the ground-floor glazing and upper louver layers.
- Atmosphere
- Calm and luminous twilight atmosphere balancing solid architectural screening with warm interior transparency.
- Environmental context
- Urban campus setting with mature street trees, paved pedestrian paths, and exterior lighting poles.
- Spatial experience
- The building engages the pedestrian walkway with a deeply recessed, fully glazed ground level protected by an overhead cantilevered soffit.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal massing tiers contrasted with vertical louver fins wrapping the cylindrical volumes.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate curvilinear architecture
- Program
- Corporate campus building or media center
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- aluminum, glass, concrete, steel
- Visual identifiers
- curved-facade, louver-screen, recessed-ground-floor, cantilevered-soffit
- Style tags
- contemporary, curvilinear, corporate
- Visual tags
- corporate-campus, facade-screen, dusk-lighting, curvilinear, glazed-ground-floor
- Geometry
- Multi-tiered cylindrical and stepped massing wrapped in a continuous curved louver screen system under a clear sky.
- Facade system
- Custom vertical louver screen system over a multi-level glazed and solid envelope.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with curved perimeter columns and cantilevered floor plates.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story civic or corporate campus building dominating the immediate landscape.
- Lighting
- Twilight conditions with warm interior lighting glowing through the ground-floor glazing and upper louver layers.
- Atmosphere
- Calm and luminous twilight atmosphere balancing solid architectural screening with warm interior transparency.
- Environmental context
- Urban campus setting with mature street trees, paved pedestrian paths, and exterior lighting poles.
- Spatial experience
- The building engages the pedestrian walkway with a deeply recessed, fully glazed ground level protected by an overhead cantilevered soffit.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal massing tiers contrasted with vertical louver fins wrapping the cylindrical volumes.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate curvilinear architecture
- Program
- Corporate campus building or media center
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture