Reuse projects
An adaptive reuse precedent by Piercy&Company illustrating how a contemporary glass and steel extension with a new brick base can be sensitively nestled behind historic industrial brick facades.
- What we like about this project
- A slender historic brick chimney acts as a sculptural anchor directly adjacent to the new glazed entrance.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- steel
- timber
Visual identifiers
- historic-brick
- industrial-chimney
- glass-extension
- courtyard-entry
Style tags
- adaptive-reuse
- contemporary
- industrial-heritage
Visual tags
- adaptive-reuse
- heritage-integration
- urban-infill
- brick-facade
- contemporary-addition
- Geometry
- Symmetrical composition framing a central courtyard entrance; historic low-rise brick volumes flank a taller stepped-back modern glass and steel volume above a new brick base.
- Facade system
- Combination of load-bearing historic brickwork and a modern glazed curtain wall system set back above.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing historic masonry supporting a steel frame superstructure for the upper levels.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled street frontage with three-story historic volumes and a taller background extension.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight creating soft shadows and realistic facade depth.
- Atmosphere
- Balanced dialogue between weathered industrial heritage and clean modern intervention.
- Environmental context
- Urban infill context integrating historic industrial brick buildings with a contemporary addition.
- Spatial experience
- A street-level passage draws the eye inward through a historic courtyard into a contemporary central entry portal.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating punched window rhythms on the historic brick wings flanking a central vertical chimney and entrance axis.
- Style reading
- Contemporary industrial heritage integration
- Program
- Mixed-use commercial and cultural reuse development
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, steel, timber
- Visual identifiers
- historic-brick, industrial-chimney, glass-extension, courtyard-entry
- Style tags
- adaptive-reuse, contemporary, industrial-heritage
- Visual tags
- adaptive-reuse, heritage-integration, urban-infill, brick-facade, contemporary-addition
- Geometry
- Symmetrical composition framing a central courtyard entrance; historic low-rise brick volumes flank a taller stepped-back modern glass and steel volume above a new brick base.
- Facade system
- Combination of load-bearing historic brickwork and a modern glazed curtain wall system set back above.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing historic masonry supporting a steel frame superstructure for the upper levels.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled street frontage with three-story historic volumes and a taller background extension.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight creating soft shadows and realistic facade depth.
- Atmosphere
- Balanced dialogue between weathered industrial heritage and clean modern intervention.
- Environmental context
- Urban infill context integrating historic industrial brick buildings with a contemporary addition.
- Spatial experience
- A street-level passage draws the eye inward through a historic courtyard into a contemporary central entry portal.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating punched window rhythms on the historic brick wings flanking a central vertical chimney and entrance axis.
- Style reading
- Contemporary industrial heritage integration
- Program
- Mixed-use commercial and cultural reuse development
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture