Huningue - Nicolas Laisné Architectes
An exemplary riverside residential facade featuring stacked continuous balconies, slender perimeter columns, and rounded corners that lighten a substantial multi-story mass.
- What we like about this project
- A dramatic mid-level double-height terrace punctures the building's elevation, creating a large open-air outdoor room.
Materials
- white-concrete
- glass
- steel
- planting
Visual identifiers
- continuous-balconies
- slender-columns
- curved-corners
- riverside-massing
Style tags
- contemporary
- rationalist
- waterfront
Visual tags
- residential
- balcony-access
- white-facade
- waterfront
- contemporary
- Geometry
- An elongated, slightly curved multi-story mass featuring deep horizontal wrap-around balconies and slender white perimeter columns that create a rhythmic colonnade. A large open terrace sits mid-height, and rounded corners soften the building's ends.
- Facade system
- Column-and-slab structure with full-height glass walls set behind deep cantilevered balconies and thin perimeter steel or concrete posts.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete flat-slab structure with perimeter columns and cantilevered balcony slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-family residential or mixed-use block, approximately eight stories high, scaled by slender vertical columns and human figures on the terrace.
- Lighting
- Soft late-afternoon or early-morning light illuminates the white facade evenly, with warm interior lighting glowing through the central double-height level.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and luminous, defined by the crisp white facade against lush green riverbanks and calm water.
- Environmental context
- Riverside setting with dense mature greenery and trees lining the near bank, mirroring the linear water edge.
- Spatial experience
- The building presents a light, porous edge toward the water, contrasting its long massing with deep open-air circulation and expansive viewing platforms.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal floor bands and continuous balcony railings alternate with tight, repetitive vertical column spacing.
- Style reading
- Contemporary organic-rationalist residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- white-concrete, glass, steel, planting
- Visual identifiers
- continuous-balconies, slender-columns, curved-corners, riverside-massing
- Style tags
- contemporary, rationalist, waterfront
- Visual tags
- residential, balcony-access, white-facade, waterfront, contemporary
- Geometry
- An elongated, slightly curved multi-story mass featuring deep horizontal wrap-around balconies and slender white perimeter columns that create a rhythmic colonnade. A large open terrace sits mid-height, and rounded corners soften the building's ends.
- Facade system
- Column-and-slab structure with full-height glass walls set behind deep cantilevered balconies and thin perimeter steel or concrete posts.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete flat-slab structure with perimeter columns and cantilevered balcony slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-family residential or mixed-use block, approximately eight stories high, scaled by slender vertical columns and human figures on the terrace.
- Lighting
- Soft late-afternoon or early-morning light illuminates the white facade evenly, with warm interior lighting glowing through the central double-height level.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and luminous, defined by the crisp white facade against lush green riverbanks and calm water.
- Environmental context
- Riverside setting with dense mature greenery and trees lining the near bank, mirroring the linear water edge.
- Spatial experience
- The building presents a light, porous edge toward the water, contrasting its long massing with deep open-air circulation and expansive viewing platforms.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal floor bands and continuous balcony railings alternate with tight, repetitive vertical column spacing.
- Style reading
- Contemporary organic-rationalist residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture