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Based in Beijing, MAD建筑事务所 produces cultural centers, airport terminals, and office spaces defined by fluid organic volumes, metallic envelopes, and swooping roof profiles that dissolve into surrounding park topographies. This precedent collection offers a clear reference when detailing continuous clear-span roof structures that transition into landscape gradients or carving daylight-filled subterranean courtyards beneath elevated civic masses.

Low-angle exterior view of a high-rise office building by MAD Architects featuring a carved organic canyon void between glass volumes.

3_MAD_垂直峡谷

北京

An exterior precedent showing how biomorphic carved voids can intersect rigid commercial glass tower volumes to create a canyon-like urban atrium experience.

What we like about this project
The organic cavern appears to erode directly through the stacked office floor plates like a natural rock formation.

Materials

  • glass
  • aluminum
  • composite-panel
  • steel

Visual identifiers

  • organic-void
  • curtain-wall
  • canyon-form
  • vertical-fins
  • stacked-volumes

Style tags

  • biomorphic
  • contemporary
  • sculptural

Visual tags

  • biomorphic
  • commercial-tower
  • high-rise
  • curtain-wall
  • asymmetric
Geometry
Stacked rectilinear glass volumes parted by an asymmetrical, organic carved cavity acting as an open-air canyon between floor plates.
Facade system
Unitized glass curtain wall with vertical sun-shading fins and smooth plaster or composite organic soffit liners.
Structural guess
Steel frame or concrete core with perimeter cantilevered floor plates framing the central void.
Spatial scale
Multi-story commercial high-rise tower viewed from a ground-level pedestrian vantage.
Lighting
Direct late-afternoon sun casting warm highlights on the organic soffits and deep shadows within the carved canyon.
Atmosphere
Striking and dramatic, merging futuristic geometry with natural canyon textures under clear sunlight.
Environmental context
Urban setting framed by foreground foliage and a clear blue sky.
Spatial experience
Dramatic upward perspective accentuating the contrast between rigorous vertical mullions and free-form cavernous voids.
Composition rhythm
Dense vertical window mullions contrasted against sweeping, fluid horizontal curves of the carved soffits.
Style reading
Biomorphic contemporary high-rise architecture
Program
Commercial office building or mixed-use high-rise
Perspective
Exterior Facade
Discipline
architecture
Materials
glass, aluminum, composite-panel, steel
Visual identifiers
organic-void, curtain-wall, canyon-form, vertical-fins, stacked-volumes
Style tags
biomorphic, contemporary, sculptural
Visual tags
biomorphic, commercial-tower, high-rise, curtain-wall, asymmetric
Geometry
Stacked rectilinear glass volumes parted by an asymmetrical, organic carved cavity acting as an open-air canyon between floor plates.
Facade system
Unitized glass curtain wall with vertical sun-shading fins and smooth plaster or composite organic soffit liners.
Structural guess
Steel frame or concrete core with perimeter cantilevered floor plates framing the central void.
Spatial scale
Multi-story commercial high-rise tower viewed from a ground-level pedestrian vantage.
Lighting
Direct late-afternoon sun casting warm highlights on the organic soffits and deep shadows within the carved canyon.
Atmosphere
Striking and dramatic, merging futuristic geometry with natural canyon textures under clear sunlight.
Environmental context
Urban setting framed by foreground foliage and a clear blue sky.
Spatial experience
Dramatic upward perspective accentuating the contrast between rigorous vertical mullions and free-form cavernous voids.
Composition rhythm
Dense vertical window mullions contrasted against sweeping, fluid horizontal curves of the carved soffits.
Style reading
Biomorphic contemporary high-rise architecture
Program
Commercial office building or mixed-use high-rise
Perspective
Exterior Facade
Discipline
architecture

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Low-angle exterior view of a high-rise office building by MAD Architects featuring a carved organic canyon void between glass volumes.

3_MAD_垂直峡谷

北京

An exterior precedent showing how biomorphic carved voids can intersect rigid commercial glass tower volumes to create a canyon-like urban atrium experience.

What we like about this project
The organic cavern appears to erode directly through the stacked office floor plates like a natural rock formation.

Materials

  • glass
  • aluminum
  • composite-panel
  • steel

Visual identifiers

  • organic-void
  • curtain-wall
  • canyon-form
  • vertical-fins
  • stacked-volumes

Style tags

  • biomorphic
  • contemporary
  • sculptural

Visual tags

  • biomorphic
  • commercial-tower
  • high-rise
  • curtain-wall
  • asymmetric
Geometry
Stacked rectilinear glass volumes parted by an asymmetrical, organic carved cavity acting as an open-air canyon between floor plates.
Facade system
Unitized glass curtain wall with vertical sun-shading fins and smooth plaster or composite organic soffit liners.
Structural guess
Steel frame or concrete core with perimeter cantilevered floor plates framing the central void.
Spatial scale
Multi-story commercial high-rise tower viewed from a ground-level pedestrian vantage.
Lighting
Direct late-afternoon sun casting warm highlights on the organic soffits and deep shadows within the carved canyon.
Atmosphere
Striking and dramatic, merging futuristic geometry with natural canyon textures under clear sunlight.
Environmental context
Urban setting framed by foreground foliage and a clear blue sky.
Spatial experience
Dramatic upward perspective accentuating the contrast between rigorous vertical mullions and free-form cavernous voids.
Composition rhythm
Dense vertical window mullions contrasted against sweeping, fluid horizontal curves of the carved soffits.
Style reading
Biomorphic contemporary high-rise architecture
Program
Commercial office building or mixed-use high-rise
Perspective
Exterior Facade
Discipline
architecture
Materials
glass, aluminum, composite-panel, steel
Visual identifiers
organic-void, curtain-wall, canyon-form, vertical-fins, stacked-volumes
Style tags
biomorphic, contemporary, sculptural
Visual tags
biomorphic, commercial-tower, high-rise, curtain-wall, asymmetric
Geometry
Stacked rectilinear glass volumes parted by an asymmetrical, organic carved cavity acting as an open-air canyon between floor plates.
Facade system
Unitized glass curtain wall with vertical sun-shading fins and smooth plaster or composite organic soffit liners.
Structural guess
Steel frame or concrete core with perimeter cantilevered floor plates framing the central void.
Spatial scale
Multi-story commercial high-rise tower viewed from a ground-level pedestrian vantage.
Lighting
Direct late-afternoon sun casting warm highlights on the organic soffits and deep shadows within the carved canyon.
Atmosphere
Striking and dramatic, merging futuristic geometry with natural canyon textures under clear sunlight.
Environmental context
Urban setting framed by foreground foliage and a clear blue sky.
Spatial experience
Dramatic upward perspective accentuating the contrast between rigorous vertical mullions and free-form cavernous voids.
Composition rhythm
Dense vertical window mullions contrasted against sweeping, fluid horizontal curves of the carved soffits.
Style reading
Biomorphic contemporary high-rise architecture
Program
Commercial office building or mixed-use high-rise
Perspective
Exterior Facade
Discipline
architecture

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