Exterior street-level perspective of a multi-story mixed-use building
An urban infill project by ODOS Architects showcasing an integrated green facade system with pronounced dark vertical fins resting on a brick base.
- What we like about this project
- Lush vegetation cascades down the vertical fins, effectively blurring the boundary between architecture and landscape.
Materials
- dark-metal
- brick
- glass
- planting
- timber
Visual identifiers
- dark-vertical-fins
- integrated-planting
- brick-podium
- full-height-glazing
Style tags
- contemporary
- biophilic
- urban
Visual tags
- urban-infill
- mixed-use
- green-facade
- contemporary
- street-view
- Geometry
- Multi-story orthogonal volume sitting atop a traditional brick podium, fronted by a grid of deep vertical dark fins that frame large glazed openings.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall framed by deep dark vertical louvers or fins combined with integrated planters.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame with non-structural curtain wall and integrated facade planters.
- Spatial scale
- Five to six stories tall, anchoring an urban corner across from a street and sidewalk.
- Lighting
- Twilight or early evening sky with soft directional warm light emanating from interior floorplates and street lamps.
- Atmosphere
- Warm and inviting against the cool dusk street lighting and traditional surrounding fabric.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with historic two-story residential terraced housing on the left and mature trees on the right.
- Spatial experience
- The building terminates a street vista, contrasting traditional low-rise white residential fabric with a dense, heavily vegetated modern facade.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical cadence defined by deep structural fins alternating with glazed bays and hanging vegetation.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban infill with biophilic elements
- Program
- Mixed-use commercial and residential
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- dark-metal, brick, glass, planting, timber
- Visual identifiers
- dark-vertical-fins, integrated-planting, brick-podium, full-height-glazing
- Style tags
- contemporary, biophilic, urban
- Visual tags
- urban-infill, mixed-use, green-facade, contemporary, street-view
- Geometry
- Multi-story orthogonal volume sitting atop a traditional brick podium, fronted by a grid of deep vertical dark fins that frame large glazed openings.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall framed by deep dark vertical louvers or fins combined with integrated planters.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame with non-structural curtain wall and integrated facade planters.
- Spatial scale
- Five to six stories tall, anchoring an urban corner across from a street and sidewalk.
- Lighting
- Twilight or early evening sky with soft directional warm light emanating from interior floorplates and street lamps.
- Atmosphere
- Warm and inviting against the cool dusk street lighting and traditional surrounding fabric.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with historic two-story residential terraced housing on the left and mature trees on the right.
- Spatial experience
- The building terminates a street vista, contrasting traditional low-rise white residential fabric with a dense, heavily vegetated modern facade.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical cadence defined by deep structural fins alternating with glazed bays and hanging vegetation.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban infill with biophilic elements
- Program
- Mixed-use commercial and residential
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture