远眺湿地博物馆的第五立面-Aerial-view-of-the-Wetland-Museum-
上海
An aerial view precedent by Link-Arc demonstrating stacked concrete cantilevers integrated with extensive green roofs and tropical wetland water features.
- What we like about this project
- Deep cantilevered trays double as accessible viewing platforms and intensive green roofs directly over open water.
Materials
- concrete
- glass
- planting
- water
Visual identifiers
- cantilevers
- green-roofs
- stacked-volumes
- reflecting-pools
Style tags
- contemporary
- tropical-modern
- monolithic
- integrated-landscape
Visual tags
- cantilever
- green-roof
- tropical
- museum
- terraced
- Geometry
- Stacked, shifted orthogonal volumes cantilever dramatically over reflective water bodies, creating cascading green-roofed terraces at multiple levels.
- Facade system
- Exposed board-formed concrete walls with flush glazed openings and integrated green roof trays.
- Structural guess
- Post-tensioned concrete slabs or heavy steel trusses hidden within the cantilevered volumes.
- Spatial scale
- Large civic scale; multiple stacked stories with generous cantilevers hovering over landscape.
- Lighting
- Soft, low-angle daylight casts clean shadows across the concrete cantilevers and highlights the texture of the green roofs.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, monumental harmony between heavy cantilevered concrete and lush tropical wetland ecology.
- Environmental context
- Dense tropical palm forest surrounding dark reflecting water pools and wetland edges.
- Spatial experience
- From above, the building reads as an abstract terraced landscape interwoven with water and dense tropical vegetation.
- Composition rhythm
- Asymmetrical interlocking horizontal trays punctuated by rectangular vertical voids and green patches.
- Style reading
- Contemporary tropical civic architecture
- Program
- Museum or cultural exhibition center
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- concrete, glass, planting, water
- Visual identifiers
- cantilevers, green-roofs, stacked-volumes, reflecting-pools
- Style tags
- contemporary, tropical-modern, monolithic, integrated-landscape
- Visual tags
- cantilever, green-roof, tropical, museum, terraced
- Geometry
- Stacked, shifted orthogonal volumes cantilever dramatically over reflective water bodies, creating cascading green-roofed terraces at multiple levels.
- Facade system
- Exposed board-formed concrete walls with flush glazed openings and integrated green roof trays.
- Structural guess
- Post-tensioned concrete slabs or heavy steel trusses hidden within the cantilevered volumes.
- Spatial scale
- Large civic scale; multiple stacked stories with generous cantilevers hovering over landscape.
- Lighting
- Soft, low-angle daylight casts clean shadows across the concrete cantilevers and highlights the texture of the green roofs.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, monumental harmony between heavy cantilevered concrete and lush tropical wetland ecology.
- Environmental context
- Dense tropical palm forest surrounding dark reflecting water pools and wetland edges.
- Spatial experience
- From above, the building reads as an abstract terraced landscape interwoven with water and dense tropical vegetation.
- Composition rhythm
- Asymmetrical interlocking horizontal trays punctuated by rectangular vertical voids and green patches.
- Style reading
- Contemporary tropical civic architecture
- Program
- Museum or cultural exhibition center
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture