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A suburban commercial office precedent featuring warm horizontal timber cladding shielded by a deep overhanging roof and a slender white colonnade.
- What we like about this project
- The deep porch structure completely masks the entrance zone behind the parking foreground.
Materials
- timber
- steel
- glass
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- timber-cladding
- slender-colonnade
- deep-overhang
- horizontal-strip-windows
Style tags
- contemporary
- timber
- functionalist
Visual tags
- timber-architecture
- commercial-office
- suburban
- colonnade
- contextual
- Geometry
- Two-story rectangular office volume sheltered by a deep overhanging flat roof supported on a slender cylindrical colonnade.
- Facade system
- Horizontal timber board siding with punched dark-framed strip windows.
- Structural guess
- Steel or timber frame with perimeter columns supporting a deep cantilevered roof canopy.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story office scale with tall ground-floor porch columns.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight casting soft shadows under the deep roof overhang.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, naturalistic professional setting framed by timber and greenery.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or rural business park setting with surrounding mature trees and a foreground parking lot.
- Spatial experience
- The building sits back behind a parking court, with the projecting porch structure providing a transitional covered zone along the facade.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical spacing of slender white columns matching the upper window mullion rhythm.
- Style reading
- Contemporary timber commercial architecture
- Program
- Corporate headquarters or design studio office
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, steel, glass, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- timber-cladding, slender-colonnade, deep-overhang, horizontal-strip-windows
- Style tags
- contemporary, timber, functionalist
- Visual tags
- timber-architecture, commercial-office, suburban, colonnade, contextual
- Geometry
- Two-story rectangular office volume sheltered by a deep overhanging flat roof supported on a slender cylindrical colonnade.
- Facade system
- Horizontal timber board siding with punched dark-framed strip windows.
- Structural guess
- Steel or timber frame with perimeter columns supporting a deep cantilevered roof canopy.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story office scale with tall ground-floor porch columns.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight casting soft shadows under the deep roof overhang.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, naturalistic professional setting framed by timber and greenery.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or rural business park setting with surrounding mature trees and a foreground parking lot.
- Spatial experience
- The building sits back behind a parking court, with the projecting porch structure providing a transitional covered zone along the facade.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical spacing of slender white columns matching the upper window mullion rhythm.
- Style reading
- Contemporary timber commercial architecture
- Program
- Corporate headquarters or design studio office
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture