Portfolio Archive - Nicolas Laisné Architectes
An exterior facade precedent showcasing external circulation stairs and deep terraced balconies that humanize a large commercial office volume.
- What we like about this project
- Continuous external stairs link multiple terrace levels into a single, highly visible vertical promenade.
Materials
- timber
- glass
- steel
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- external-staircase
- wrap-around-balconies
- terraced-massing
- horizontal-louvers
Style tags
- contemporary
- sustainable
- biophilic
Visual tags
- commercial-office
- outdoor-circulation
- terraces
- mass-timber
- contemporary-facade
- Geometry
- Terraced multi-story volumes featuring stacked horizontal floor slabs, protruding wrap-around balconies, and prominent external interlocking staircases cascading down the facade.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall glazing set behind projecting timber-lined balconies and delicate metal mesh railings.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete core and floor plates with timber ceiling soffits and steel-framed exterior stairs.
- Spatial scale
- Large commercial office scale, approximately six to seven stories, made pedestrian-scale through exterior stair runs and continuous terraces.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting crisp shadows across the projecting horizontal balcony slabs and external staircases.
- Atmosphere
- Open, airy, and interconnected, emphasizing outdoor access and collaborative circulation.
- Environmental context
- Urban office campus setting featuring young planted trees and landscaped ground plane at the base.
- Spatial experience
- The building engages the exterior and landscape through continuous outdoor circulation paths and multi-level terraces that break down the massive scale.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal floor slab layering contrasted by the diagonal rhythm of cascading exterior stairs.
- Style reading
- Contemporary sustainable commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial office building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, glass, steel, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- external-staircase, wrap-around-balconies, terraced-massing, horizontal-louvers
- Style tags
- contemporary, sustainable, biophilic
- Visual tags
- commercial-office, outdoor-circulation, terraces, mass-timber, contemporary-facade
- Geometry
- Terraced multi-story volumes featuring stacked horizontal floor slabs, protruding wrap-around balconies, and prominent external interlocking staircases cascading down the facade.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall glazing set behind projecting timber-lined balconies and delicate metal mesh railings.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete core and floor plates with timber ceiling soffits and steel-framed exterior stairs.
- Spatial scale
- Large commercial office scale, approximately six to seven stories, made pedestrian-scale through exterior stair runs and continuous terraces.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting crisp shadows across the projecting horizontal balcony slabs and external staircases.
- Atmosphere
- Open, airy, and interconnected, emphasizing outdoor access and collaborative circulation.
- Environmental context
- Urban office campus setting featuring young planted trees and landscaped ground plane at the base.
- Spatial experience
- The building engages the exterior and landscape through continuous outdoor circulation paths and multi-level terraces that break down the massive scale.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal floor slab layering contrasted by the diagonal rhythm of cascading exterior stairs.
- Style reading
- Contemporary sustainable commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial office building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture