WATERFRONT DI LEVANTE GENOA
A waterfront architectural precedent featuring sweeping curved balconies and cantilevered outdoor terraces overlooking a marina.
- What we like about this project
- Fine vertical tension cables support the continuous overhangs along the curved facade.
Materials
- glass
- steel
- concrete
- stone-pavers
Visual identifiers
- curved-balcony
- waterfront-promenade
- cantilevered-slab
- glass-balustrade
Style tags
- contemporary
- maritime
- curvilinear
- waterfront
Visual tags
- coastal
- curvilinear
- balcony
- marina
- waterfront
- Geometry
- Curvilinear multi-story building edge wrapping a cantilevered terrace over structural columns, facing a harbor.
- Facade system
- Curved curtain wall with floor-to-ceiling glazing and structural glass balustrades.
- Structural guess
- Post-tensioned concrete slabs with perimeter steel columns supporting the ground-level arcade.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story residential or commercial building with a wide public walkway at human scale.
- Lighting
- Bright daytime overhead sun with reflections cast on curved glass balustrades and soft shadows underneath the cantilever.
- Atmosphere
- Open, airy, and breezy coastal atmosphere with expansive harbor views.
- Environmental context
- Coastal harbor setting featuring moored boats, docks, and a slender observation tower in the background.
- Spatial experience
- Transition from an open harbor-edge promenade into sheltered columned arcades beneath continuous curved balconies.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal banding emphasized by stacked curved floor slabs and glass railings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary maritime civic architecture
- Program
- Waterfront mixed-use or residential development
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, steel, concrete, stone-pavers
- Visual identifiers
- curved-balcony, waterfront-promenade, cantilevered-slab, glass-balustrade
- Style tags
- contemporary, maritime, curvilinear, waterfront
- Visual tags
- coastal, curvilinear, balcony, marina, waterfront
- Geometry
- Curvilinear multi-story building edge wrapping a cantilevered terrace over structural columns, facing a harbor.
- Facade system
- Curved curtain wall with floor-to-ceiling glazing and structural glass balustrades.
- Structural guess
- Post-tensioned concrete slabs with perimeter steel columns supporting the ground-level arcade.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story residential or commercial building with a wide public walkway at human scale.
- Lighting
- Bright daytime overhead sun with reflections cast on curved glass balustrades and soft shadows underneath the cantilever.
- Atmosphere
- Open, airy, and breezy coastal atmosphere with expansive harbor views.
- Environmental context
- Coastal harbor setting featuring moored boats, docks, and a slender observation tower in the background.
- Spatial experience
- Transition from an open harbor-edge promenade into sheltered columned arcades beneath continuous curved balconies.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal banding emphasized by stacked curved floor slabs and glass railings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary maritime civic architecture
- Program
- Waterfront mixed-use or residential development
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture