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A suburban office building precedent featuring timber envelope cladding beneath a broad steel-columned roof canopy, integrated into a landscape of rain gardens and permeable paving.
- What we like about this project
- Rain garden plantings and tall grasses immediately border the vehicular access and parking zones.
Materials
- timber
- steel
- glass
- paving-blocks
Visual identifiers
- timber-cladding
- steel-columns
- roof-canopy
- paved-parking
Style tags
- contemporary
- sustainable
- suburban
Visual tags
- suburban-office
- sustainable-drainage
- timber-facade
- parking-lot
- low-rise
- Geometry
- Low two-story rectangular massing with a deep overhanging roof canopy supported by slender steel columns.
- Facade system
- Horizontal timber board rainscreen combined with continuous ribbon strip windows.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with timber envelope cladding and light floor systems.
- Spatial scale
- Human scale two-story structure framed by cars and mature landscape planting.
- Lighting
- Overcast daylight with soft, even illumination and subtle shadows beneath the deep roof overhang.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, functional, and integrated with green infrastructure under a soft overcast sky.
- Environmental context
- Suburban office park setting with extensive surface parking and integrated sustainable drainage plantings.
- Spatial experience
- The approach links expansive parking and structured rain garden planting directly to the timber-clad office perimeter.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating slender steel columns establish a measured vertical cadence along the timber facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary sustainable suburban architecture
- Program
- Suburban office or commercial facility
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, steel, glass, paving-blocks
- Visual identifiers
- timber-cladding, steel-columns, roof-canopy, paved-parking
- Style tags
- contemporary, sustainable, suburban
- Visual tags
- suburban-office, sustainable-drainage, timber-facade, parking-lot, low-rise
- Geometry
- Low two-story rectangular massing with a deep overhanging roof canopy supported by slender steel columns.
- Facade system
- Horizontal timber board rainscreen combined with continuous ribbon strip windows.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with timber envelope cladding and light floor systems.
- Spatial scale
- Human scale two-story structure framed by cars and mature landscape planting.
- Lighting
- Overcast daylight with soft, even illumination and subtle shadows beneath the deep roof overhang.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, functional, and integrated with green infrastructure under a soft overcast sky.
- Environmental context
- Suburban office park setting with extensive surface parking and integrated sustainable drainage plantings.
- Spatial experience
- The approach links expansive parking and structured rain garden planting directly to the timber-clad office perimeter.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating slender steel columns establish a measured vertical cadence along the timber facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary sustainable suburban architecture
- Program
- Suburban office or commercial facility
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture