Multi-level parking garage with geometric metal mesh and wood slat
An innovative parking structure facade precedent utilizing dynamic geometric panel layouts of perforated metal and wood slats to animate an otherwise utilitarian envelope.
- What we like about this project
- Curved geometric cutouts soften the otherwise strict diagonal metal and wood panel patterning.
Materials
- concrete
- wood
- perforated-metal
- steel
Visual identifiers
- perforated-metal-mesh
- diagonal-geometry
- parking-garage-facade
- wood-slat-panels
Style tags
- contemporary
- tectonic
- patterned
Visual tags
- facade-screen
- mixed-use
- geometric-pattern
- parking-structure
- contemporary
- Geometry
- Multi-tier orthogonal structural grid articulated by diagonal and curved geometric panel layouts across parking bays.
- Facade system
- Custom screen system combining expanded metal mesh and wooden slats within a concrete structural frame.
- Structural guess
- Cast-in-place concrete post-tensioned or flat slab structural frame.
- Spatial scale
- Five-story parking structure with a human-scaled retail podium at street level.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting sharp horizontal shadows across the parking decks and highlighting varied panel textures.
- Atmosphere
- Textured, bright, and porous urban edge filtering sunlight and shadow.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with mature trees, parked cars, and retail storefronts integrated at the ground level.
- Spatial experience
- The facade screens the utilitarian function of vehicle storage while maintaining natural ventilation through open mesh and slats.
- Composition rhythm
- A rhythmic grid interspersed with alternating triangular and curved panel subdivisions.
- Style reading
- Contemporary patterned tectonic facade
- Program
- Parking garage with ground-floor retail
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- concrete, wood, perforated-metal, steel
- Visual identifiers
- perforated-metal-mesh, diagonal-geometry, parking-garage-facade, wood-slat-panels
- Style tags
- contemporary, tectonic, patterned
- Visual tags
- facade-screen, mixed-use, geometric-pattern, parking-structure, contemporary
- Geometry
- Multi-tier orthogonal structural grid articulated by diagonal and curved geometric panel layouts across parking bays.
- Facade system
- Custom screen system combining expanded metal mesh and wooden slats within a concrete structural frame.
- Structural guess
- Cast-in-place concrete post-tensioned or flat slab structural frame.
- Spatial scale
- Five-story parking structure with a human-scaled retail podium at street level.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting sharp horizontal shadows across the parking decks and highlighting varied panel textures.
- Atmosphere
- Textured, bright, and porous urban edge filtering sunlight and shadow.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with mature trees, parked cars, and retail storefronts integrated at the ground level.
- Spatial experience
- The facade screens the utilitarian function of vehicle storage while maintaining natural ventilation through open mesh and slats.
- Composition rhythm
- A rhythmic grid interspersed with alternating triangular and curved panel subdivisions.
- Style reading
- Contemporary patterned tectonic facade
- Program
- Parking garage with ground-floor retail
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture