205 N Mathews Ave
An institutional courtyard view highlighting a prominent overhead connector bridge accented by saturated magenta and blue architectural lighting.
- What we like about this project
- A neon-like magenta and blue linear light slice bisects the underside of the massive elevated walkway.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- metal-panel
- concrete-paver
Visual identifiers
- elevated-bridge
- pink-lighting
- brick-facade
- axial-approach
Style tags
- contemporary
- institutional
- architectural-lighting
Visual tags
- institutional
- twilight-shot
- lighting-design
- campus
- symmetry
- Geometry
- Symmetrical composition centered on a grand pedestrian walkway aligned with a central entry portal and overhead connecting bridge.
- Facade system
- Brick masonry cavity walls with punch windows and punched metal panel accents at upper massing.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with masonry veneer and an elevated steel truss or box-girder bridge.
- Spatial scale
- Large institutional scale featuring multi-story brick wings spanned by an elevated walkway.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky balanced with warm interior illumination from windows and dramatic pink and blue linear LED lighting along the underside of the overhead bridge.
- Atmosphere
- Dramatic and futuristic twilight mood created by the saturated colored lighting contrasting against warm interior glow.
- Environmental context
- Open campus courtyard or plaza at twilight with surrounding brick institutional buildings.
- Spatial experience
- A strong axial approach draws the eye inward, framed by surrounding brick campus volumes and grounded by lighted paving paths.
- Composition rhythm
- One-point perspective with a strong central axis, repeating window bays, and vertical piers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional campus architecture
- Program
- University or research building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, metal-panel, concrete-paver
- Visual identifiers
- elevated-bridge, pink-lighting, brick-facade, axial-approach
- Style tags
- contemporary, institutional, architectural-lighting
- Visual tags
- institutional, twilight-shot, lighting-design, campus, symmetry
- Geometry
- Symmetrical composition centered on a grand pedestrian walkway aligned with a central entry portal and overhead connecting bridge.
- Facade system
- Brick masonry cavity walls with punch windows and punched metal panel accents at upper massing.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with masonry veneer and an elevated steel truss or box-girder bridge.
- Spatial scale
- Large institutional scale featuring multi-story brick wings spanned by an elevated walkway.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky balanced with warm interior illumination from windows and dramatic pink and blue linear LED lighting along the underside of the overhead bridge.
- Atmosphere
- Dramatic and futuristic twilight mood created by the saturated colored lighting contrasting against warm interior glow.
- Environmental context
- Open campus courtyard or plaza at twilight with surrounding brick institutional buildings.
- Spatial experience
- A strong axial approach draws the eye inward, framed by surrounding brick campus volumes and grounded by lighted paving paths.
- Composition rhythm
- One-point perspective with a strong central axis, repeating window bays, and vertical piers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional campus architecture
- Program
- University or research building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture