Ex Machina Soundworks
A street facade precedent combining weathered steel framing, dark textured masonry, and translucent upper cladding for an industrial soundworks facility.
- What we like about this project
- The central dark masonry wall features mottled, cloud-like surface variations that read almost like a mural or large-scale photography.
Materials
- weathered-steel
- cmu-block
- translucent-glass
- metal
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- weathered-steel-frame
- dark-masonry-block
- translucent-cladding
- industrial-facade
Style tags
- industrial
- contemporary
- raw-materiality
Visual tags
- industrial
- facade
- urban-infill
- weathered-steel
- textured-masonry
- Geometry
- Symmetrical composition featuring a prominent central dark masonry block set against a taller structural steel and translucent channel glass backdrop, capped by a deep rusted steel parapet band.
- Facade system
- Composite facade featuring exterior structural steel framing, central concrete masonry unit wall, and upper translucent glazing system.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with non-load-bearing masonry and infill curtain wall.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story industrial loft scale with large structural bays.
- Lighting
- Even daylight under a bright sky with crisp shadow lines cast by the projecting steel profiles.
- Atmosphere
- Raw, grounded, and robust urban presence.
- Environmental context
- Urban infill street edge flanked by older brick and masonry buildings on both sides.
- Spatial experience
- The flat urban ground plane leads directly to the heavy, opaque lower mass, where flanking doorways provide human-scaled entry points beneath the soaring upper volume.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical structural rhythm established by H-beam steel columns and upper parapet panels.
- Style reading
- Industrial contemporary adaptive reuse aesthetic
- Program
- Sound studio or creative workshop
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- weathered-steel, cmu-block, translucent-glass, metal, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- weathered-steel-frame, dark-masonry-block, translucent-cladding, industrial-facade
- Style tags
- industrial, contemporary, raw-materiality
- Visual tags
- industrial, facade, urban-infill, weathered-steel, textured-masonry
- Geometry
- Symmetrical composition featuring a prominent central dark masonry block set against a taller structural steel and translucent channel glass backdrop, capped by a deep rusted steel parapet band.
- Facade system
- Composite facade featuring exterior structural steel framing, central concrete masonry unit wall, and upper translucent glazing system.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with non-load-bearing masonry and infill curtain wall.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story industrial loft scale with large structural bays.
- Lighting
- Even daylight under a bright sky with crisp shadow lines cast by the projecting steel profiles.
- Atmosphere
- Raw, grounded, and robust urban presence.
- Environmental context
- Urban infill street edge flanked by older brick and masonry buildings on both sides.
- Spatial experience
- The flat urban ground plane leads directly to the heavy, opaque lower mass, where flanking doorways provide human-scaled entry points beneath the soaring upper volume.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical structural rhythm established by H-beam steel columns and upper parapet panels.
- Style reading
- Industrial contemporary adaptive reuse aesthetic
- Program
- Sound studio or creative workshop
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture