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A striking urban facade precedent utilizing a dense living wall envelope to soften a multi-story commercial building at a busy street corner.
- What we like about this project
- The entire upper volume is so densely covered in vegetation that it reads as a floating green mass above the dark storefront base.
Materials
- vegetation
- glass
- dark-metal
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- living-wall
- green-facade
- punched-windows
- urban-corner
Style tags
- biophilic
- contemporary
- green-architecture
Visual tags
- biophilic-design
- green-facade
- urban-infill
- commercial
- street-edge
- Geometry
- Rectangular volume at a street corner featuring upper floors completely enveloped in vertical vegetation, punctuated by flush-set large glazed openings.
- Facade system
- Living green wall system enclosing upper levels with large punched storefront glazing.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with infill walls and cantilevered upper volumes.
- Spatial scale
- Two to three-story urban building scale framing an active pedestrian street.
- Lighting
- Bright ambient daylight casting soft shadows, highlighting the texture of the living wall and the reflective glass panes.
- Atmosphere
- Lush, contrasting vitality against a dense urban streetscape.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban street corner with neighboring commercial facades, street trees, and pedestrians.
- Spatial experience
- The street edge transitions from an active urban sidewalk below into a soft, living-wall volume above that dramatically changes the street canopy feel.
- Composition rhythm
- Heavy vertical green massing interrupted by rhythmic large punched glazing bays.
- Style reading
- Biophilic contemporary urban architecture
- Program
- Studio office and commercial retail
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- vegetation, glass, dark-metal, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- living-wall, green-facade, punched-windows, urban-corner
- Style tags
- biophilic, contemporary, green-architecture
- Visual tags
- biophilic-design, green-facade, urban-infill, commercial, street-edge
- Geometry
- Rectangular volume at a street corner featuring upper floors completely enveloped in vertical vegetation, punctuated by flush-set large glazed openings.
- Facade system
- Living green wall system enclosing upper levels with large punched storefront glazing.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with infill walls and cantilevered upper volumes.
- Spatial scale
- Two to three-story urban building scale framing an active pedestrian street.
- Lighting
- Bright ambient daylight casting soft shadows, highlighting the texture of the living wall and the reflective glass panes.
- Atmosphere
- Lush, contrasting vitality against a dense urban streetscape.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban street corner with neighboring commercial facades, street trees, and pedestrians.
- Spatial experience
- The street edge transitions from an active urban sidewalk below into a soft, living-wall volume above that dramatically changes the street canopy feel.
- Composition rhythm
- Heavy vertical green massing interrupted by rhythmic large punched glazing bays.
- Style reading
- Biophilic contemporary urban architecture
- Program
- Studio office and commercial retail
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture