Low horizontal stone volumes
上海
A waterfront architectural precedent featuring stacked, low-slung stone volumes that engage in a reflective dialogue with the lake edge.
- What we like about this project
- The upper mass cantilevers cleanly over the ground level, enhancing the floating effect above the water edge of the lake edge.
Materials
- stone
- glass
- steel
Visual identifiers
- stone-cladding
- waterfront-reflection
- cantilevered-mass
- horizontal-volumes
Style tags
- contemporary
- tectonic
- minimalist
Visual tags
- waterfront
- pavilion
- low-rise
- stone-massing
- contemporary
- Geometry
- Low-slung, stacked rectangular stone volumes stepping horizontally across the site, mirroring in the water below.
- Facade system
- Linear stone panel rainscreen with deep punched openings and large glazed picture windows.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with concrete slabs and stone facade cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Expansive horizontal low-rise pavilion scale, approximately one to two stories high.
- Lighting
- Bright ambient daylight under an open sky, casting crisp horizontal shadows beneath cantilevered masses.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and contemplative, emphasized by the horizontal lines and clear water reflections.
- Environmental context
- Waterfront site with sparse deciduous trees and distant green banks across the water.
- Spatial experience
- The long horizontal massing reads as a series of grounded pavilions engaging directly with the water's edge.
- Composition rhythm
- Long horizontal banding rhythm interrupted by vertical window reveals and sparse tree trunks.
- Style reading
- Contemporary tectonic pavilion architecture
- Program
- Cultural or civic exhibition pavilion
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stone, glass, steel
- Visual identifiers
- stone-cladding, waterfront-reflection, cantilevered-mass, horizontal-volumes
- Style tags
- contemporary, tectonic, minimalist
- Visual tags
- waterfront, pavilion, low-rise, stone-massing, contemporary
- Geometry
- Low-slung, stacked rectangular stone volumes stepping horizontally across the site, mirroring in the water below.
- Facade system
- Linear stone panel rainscreen with deep punched openings and large glazed picture windows.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with concrete slabs and stone facade cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Expansive horizontal low-rise pavilion scale, approximately one to two stories high.
- Lighting
- Bright ambient daylight under an open sky, casting crisp horizontal shadows beneath cantilevered masses.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and contemplative, emphasized by the horizontal lines and clear water reflections.
- Environmental context
- Waterfront site with sparse deciduous trees and distant green banks across the water.
- Spatial experience
- The long horizontal massing reads as a series of grounded pavilions engaging directly with the water's edge.
- Composition rhythm
- Long horizontal banding rhythm interrupted by vertical window reveals and sparse tree trunks.
- Style reading
- Contemporary tectonic pavilion architecture
- Program
- Cultural or civic exhibition pavilion
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture