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An educational campus precedent demonstrating the integration of warm terracotta panels, tactile curved brickwork, and an expansive second-story terrace.
- What we like about this project
- A prominent backlit bear graphic integrated into the double-height vertical glazing on the right wing.
Materials
- terracotta
- brick
- glass
- steel
- metal-panel
Visual identifiers
- terracotta-panels
- curved-brick-entry
- glazed-terrace
- deep-roof-overhang
Style tags
- contemporary
- institutional
- campus-modern
Visual tags
- institutional
- dusk-lighting
- campus-architecture
- curved-wall
- mixed-cladding
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical two-story massing with a prominent curving brick entry pavilion, upper outdoor terrace, and a deep sheltering roof overhang.
- Facade system
- Terracotta rainscreen panels combined with curtain wall glazing and masonry veneer.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame construction with composite floor slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Large institutional or educational scale, roughly two stories tall with wide horizontal proportions.
- Lighting
- Twilight exterior with warm interior lighting glowing through extensive glazing and illuminating the overhang soffit.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting and professional, softened by the warm glow of interior lights against the evening sky.
- Environmental context
- Suburban campus setting with grass lawns in the foreground and rolling dry hills in the background under an evening sky.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the open paved forecourt, the building invites entry through a transparent glazed portal flanked by tactile masonry.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal stratification balanced by vertical panel joints and a sweeping curved masonry form.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional architecture
- Program
- Educational or student union facility
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- terracotta, brick, glass, steel, metal-panel
- Visual identifiers
- terracotta-panels, curved-brick-entry, glazed-terrace, deep-roof-overhang
- Style tags
- contemporary, institutional, campus-modern
- Visual tags
- institutional, dusk-lighting, campus-architecture, curved-wall, mixed-cladding
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical two-story massing with a prominent curving brick entry pavilion, upper outdoor terrace, and a deep sheltering roof overhang.
- Facade system
- Terracotta rainscreen panels combined with curtain wall glazing and masonry veneer.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame construction with composite floor slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Large institutional or educational scale, roughly two stories tall with wide horizontal proportions.
- Lighting
- Twilight exterior with warm interior lighting glowing through extensive glazing and illuminating the overhang soffit.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting and professional, softened by the warm glow of interior lights against the evening sky.
- Environmental context
- Suburban campus setting with grass lawns in the foreground and rolling dry hills in the background under an evening sky.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the open paved forecourt, the building invites entry through a transparent glazed portal flanked by tactile masonry.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal stratification balanced by vertical panel joints and a sweeping curved masonry form.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional architecture
- Program
- Educational or student union facility
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture