深保未来展示中心
深圳 / 广州
A striking exhibition center precedent showcasing a heavy tapered pedestal carrying a luminous glazed cantilevered box, ideal for civic gateway and corporate pavilion studies.
- What we like about this project
- The dramatic undercut of the tapered base completely hides the structural support from axial perspective, creating a pure floating illusion.
Materials
- white-concrete
- glass
- aluminum
- steel
Visual identifiers
- floating-pavilion
- tapered-base
- curved-corners
- cantilever
- glazed-upper-story
Style tags
- contemporary
- futuristic
- minimal-futurism
Visual tags
- futuristic
- symmetrical
- monumental
- civic
- night-lighting
- cantilever
- Geometry
- Strictly symmetrical elevation featuring a heavy, inwardly tapered solid base supporting a floating, fully glazed rectangular upper volume with curved corners.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall glazing with minimal vertical mullions wrapping rounded structural corners.
- Structural guess
- Heavy post-tensioned concrete transfer slab or truss system supporting the expansive upper cantilever.
- Spatial scale
- Large public-scale pavilion; two principal stories perched over a wide, sweeping podium.
- Lighting
- Twilight blue hour complemented by intense internal illumination of the upper floor and hidden cove lighting underneath the cantilever.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, monumental, and futuristic under the cool evening glow.
- Environmental context
- Set within a vast, flat paved landscape with young landscaping and sparse trees under an open dusk sky.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across a grand plaza, the monumental mass draws the eye upward to the glowing floating roof and transparent upper gallery.
- Composition rhythm
- Rigid axial symmetry with a clear tripartite elevation: paved ground plane, solid tapered belly, and vertical mullion grid above.
- Style reading
- Contemporary futuristic civic architecture
- Program
- Exhibition center / future display hall
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- white-concrete, glass, aluminum, steel
- Visual identifiers
- floating-pavilion, tapered-base, curved-corners, cantilever, glazed-upper-story
- Style tags
- contemporary, futuristic, minimal-futurism
- Visual tags
- futuristic, symmetrical, monumental, civic, night-lighting, cantilever
- Geometry
- Strictly symmetrical elevation featuring a heavy, inwardly tapered solid base supporting a floating, fully glazed rectangular upper volume with curved corners.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall glazing with minimal vertical mullions wrapping rounded structural corners.
- Structural guess
- Heavy post-tensioned concrete transfer slab or truss system supporting the expansive upper cantilever.
- Spatial scale
- Large public-scale pavilion; two principal stories perched over a wide, sweeping podium.
- Lighting
- Twilight blue hour complemented by intense internal illumination of the upper floor and hidden cove lighting underneath the cantilever.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, monumental, and futuristic under the cool evening glow.
- Environmental context
- Set within a vast, flat paved landscape with young landscaping and sparse trees under an open dusk sky.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across a grand plaza, the monumental mass draws the eye upward to the glowing floating roof and transparent upper gallery.
- Composition rhythm
- Rigid axial symmetry with a clear tripartite elevation: paved ground plane, solid tapered belly, and vertical mullion grid above.
- Style reading
- Contemporary futuristic civic architecture
- Program
- Exhibition center / future display hall
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture