KBF Warehouse
2022
A valuable precedent for adaptive reuse and hybrid architecture combining a historic brick industrial fabric with lightweight timber-and-glass upper extensions.
- What we like about this project
- Integrated hanging planters suspended along the exterior timber balconies softening the glazed facade.
Materials
- brick
- timber
- glass
- steel
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- brick-industrial-base
- timber-structure
- sawtooth-roof
- stepped-terraces
- curtain-wall
Style tags
- contemporary
- industrial-chic
- adaptive-reuse
- hybrid
Visual tags
- adaptive-reuse
- mixed-use
- timber
- urban-infill
- terraced
- industrial
- Geometry
- An articulated low-rise brick industrial base with sawtooth gables supports terraced, multi-story glazed and timber-structured volumes stepping back from the street.
- Facade system
- Combination of structural brick masonry ground floor and floor-to-ceiling unitized glazing with timber framing above.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing brick masonry on the ground level supporting engineered timber framing and steel-reinforced upper floors.
- Spatial scale
- Medium-scale urban mixed-use complex combining a single-story industrial footprint with three to four-story modern additions.
- Lighting
- Bright overcast daylight with soft, even illumination and subtle directional shadows from the multi-tiered volumes.
- Atmosphere
- Balanced and integrated, blending historic tactile masonry with clean modern transparency.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with docked cars, adjacent multi-story buildings, and an open sky with scattered clouds.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the urban street, the lower brick scale grounds the project while upper glazed terraces create an open, porous profile against the sky.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal curtain wall banding contrasted against the vertical rhythm of columns and brick piers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary hybrid industrial adaptive reuse
- Program
- Commercial office and multi-use workspace
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, timber, glass, steel, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- brick-industrial-base, timber-structure, sawtooth-roof, stepped-terraces, curtain-wall
- Style tags
- contemporary, industrial-chic, adaptive-reuse, hybrid
- Visual tags
- adaptive-reuse, mixed-use, timber, urban-infill, terraced, industrial
- Geometry
- An articulated low-rise brick industrial base with sawtooth gables supports terraced, multi-story glazed and timber-structured volumes stepping back from the street.
- Facade system
- Combination of structural brick masonry ground floor and floor-to-ceiling unitized glazing with timber framing above.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing brick masonry on the ground level supporting engineered timber framing and steel-reinforced upper floors.
- Spatial scale
- Medium-scale urban mixed-use complex combining a single-story industrial footprint with three to four-story modern additions.
- Lighting
- Bright overcast daylight with soft, even illumination and subtle directional shadows from the multi-tiered volumes.
- Atmosphere
- Balanced and integrated, blending historic tactile masonry with clean modern transparency.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with docked cars, adjacent multi-story buildings, and an open sky with scattered clouds.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the urban street, the lower brick scale grounds the project while upper glazed terraces create an open, porous profile against the sky.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal curtain wall banding contrasted against the vertical rhythm of columns and brick piers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary hybrid industrial adaptive reuse
- Program
- Commercial office and multi-use workspace
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture