ENZO FERRARI PAVILLION UNIMORE CAMPUS MODENA
An institutional campus pavilion precedent featuring a floating metallic louvered volume resting on a transparent glazed base, ideal for civic and academic envelope studies.
- What we like about this project
- The middle volume appears to float above the transparent glass ground floor due to the setback and lightness of the structural support.
Materials
- metal-fins
- glass
- concrete
- paving
Visual identifiers
- vertical-fins
- glazed-ground-floor
- roof-terrace
- cantilevered-mass
Style tags
- contemporary
- rationalist
- institutional
Visual tags
- institutional
- campus-architecture
- metallic-louvers
- transparent-base
- symmetrical
- Geometry
- Symmetrical, tripartite vertical composition featuring a floating solid volume wrapped in vertical fins above a fully glazed ground level, topped by a recessed glazed attic and terrace.
- Facade system
- Vertical metallic fin screen over curtain wall glazing, with an upper glazed clerestory and railing system.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame with cantilevered upper floors and point-fixed ground-floor glazing.
- Spatial scale
- Three-story institutional pavilion scale, featuring a generous ground-floor entry height and human figures for scale on the plaza and roof terrace.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffuse twilight or overcast daylight casting gentle vertical highlights along the metallic facade fins.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, orderly academic dignity with a welcoming public plaza interface.
- Environmental context
- Urban campus plaza setting with surrounding mature trees and neighboring low-rise campus buildings.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching pedestrians move from a wide paved plaza under the cantilevered lower massing into a transparent, welcoming central lobby entrance.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical rhythm created by the facade louvers, counterbalanced by horizontal bands at the roof terrace and ground line.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional monumentality
- Program
- University campus pavilion and exhibition hall
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- metal-fins, glass, concrete, paving
- Visual identifiers
- vertical-fins, glazed-ground-floor, roof-terrace, cantilevered-mass
- Style tags
- contemporary, rationalist, institutional
- Visual tags
- institutional, campus-architecture, metallic-louvers, transparent-base, symmetrical
- Geometry
- Symmetrical, tripartite vertical composition featuring a floating solid volume wrapped in vertical fins above a fully glazed ground level, topped by a recessed glazed attic and terrace.
- Facade system
- Vertical metallic fin screen over curtain wall glazing, with an upper glazed clerestory and railing system.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame with cantilevered upper floors and point-fixed ground-floor glazing.
- Spatial scale
- Three-story institutional pavilion scale, featuring a generous ground-floor entry height and human figures for scale on the plaza and roof terrace.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffuse twilight or overcast daylight casting gentle vertical highlights along the metallic facade fins.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, orderly academic dignity with a welcoming public plaza interface.
- Environmental context
- Urban campus plaza setting with surrounding mature trees and neighboring low-rise campus buildings.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching pedestrians move from a wide paved plaza under the cantilevered lower massing into a transparent, welcoming central lobby entrance.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical rhythm created by the facade louvers, counterbalanced by horizontal bands at the roof terrace and ground line.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional monumentality
- Program
- University campus pavilion and exhibition hall
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture