2_MAD_深圳湾文化广场
北京
An aerial site precedent showing MAD's organic cultural pavilions nestled within a dense high-rise financial district along a waterfront.
- What we like about this project
- Fluid organic white volumes look like polished pebbles dropped directly into a rigid orthogonal grid of skyscrapers.
Materials
- glass
- steel
- concrete
- stone
Visual identifiers
- biomorphic-pavilions
- skyscraper-cluster
- waterfront-park
- dusk-lighting
Style tags
- biomorphic
- contemporary
- urban-scale
- futuristic
Visual tags
- urban-design
- cultural-precinct
- waterfront
- aerial-view
- megacity
- Geometry
- An urban scale cluster of high-rise orthogonal towers contrasted with low-slung, curvaceous biomorphic volumes sitting in a landscaped park along a waterfront.
- Facade system
- Curtained glass and metal panels on high-rises; smooth seamless shell panels on organic culture buildings.
- Structural guess
- Steel frames and core for high-rises; space frames or concrete shells for organic cultural structures.
- Spatial scale
- Massive urban scale; skyscrapers reach multiple hundreds of meters while foreground organic culture pavilions sit low in the landscape.
- Lighting
- Twilight/dusk lighting; warm interior glows from tower windows and soft strip lighting along the waterfront promenade contrast with the cool grey evening sky.
- Atmosphere
- Serene dusk atmosphere capturing the tension between rigid financial towers and soft fluid cultural forms.
- Environmental context
- Dense metropolitan financial or cultural center waterfront with a large park foreground and reflective water body.
- Spatial experience
- A sweeping aerial vista displaying the relationship between high-density corporate towers and a flowing, organic cultural precinct framing the water's edge.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical grid of high-rise towers balanced by horizontal shoreline paths and rounded sculptural rooflines below.
- Style reading
- Biomorphic contemporary megacity architecture
- Program
- Cultural park and museum complex amid mixed-use high-rise district
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, steel, concrete, stone
- Visual identifiers
- biomorphic-pavilions, skyscraper-cluster, waterfront-park, dusk-lighting
- Style tags
- biomorphic, contemporary, urban-scale, futuristic
- Visual tags
- urban-design, cultural-precinct, waterfront, aerial-view, megacity
- Geometry
- An urban scale cluster of high-rise orthogonal towers contrasted with low-slung, curvaceous biomorphic volumes sitting in a landscaped park along a waterfront.
- Facade system
- Curtained glass and metal panels on high-rises; smooth seamless shell panels on organic culture buildings.
- Structural guess
- Steel frames and core for high-rises; space frames or concrete shells for organic cultural structures.
- Spatial scale
- Massive urban scale; skyscrapers reach multiple hundreds of meters while foreground organic culture pavilions sit low in the landscape.
- Lighting
- Twilight/dusk lighting; warm interior glows from tower windows and soft strip lighting along the waterfront promenade contrast with the cool grey evening sky.
- Atmosphere
- Serene dusk atmosphere capturing the tension between rigid financial towers and soft fluid cultural forms.
- Environmental context
- Dense metropolitan financial or cultural center waterfront with a large park foreground and reflective water body.
- Spatial experience
- A sweeping aerial vista displaying the relationship between high-density corporate towers and a flowing, organic cultural precinct framing the water's edge.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical grid of high-rise towers balanced by horizontal shoreline paths and rounded sculptural rooflines below.
- Style reading
- Biomorphic contemporary megacity architecture
- Program
- Cultural park and museum complex amid mixed-use high-rise district
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture