Rohde & Schwarz Campus
An exterior street-level rendering of a commercial office campus tower by Snøhetta, demonstrating a rigorous blue vertical fin grid and a transparent double-height podium.
Materials
- glass
- painted-metal
- concrete
- paving
Visual identifiers
- blue-metal-grid
- tall-office-tower
- glazed-lobby
- structural-mullions
Style tags
- contemporary
- corporate
- rationalist
Visual tags
- commercial-tower
- urban-campus
- metal-facade
- street-edge
- contemporary
- Geometry
- Vertical rectangular tower volume with a stepped lower podium, featuring an extruded structural grid across the facade.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall system with prominent vertical metal fins or mullions projecting outwards.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame with a suspended curtain wall system.
- Spatial scale
- High-rise office tower scale, approximately twelve to fourteen stories, towering over pedestrian-scaled street frontages.
- Lighting
- Diffused daylight under an overcast sky casting soft shadows and highlighting the blue metallic sheen of the facade fins.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, crisp, and professional urban atmosphere under soft, cool daylight.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with mature trees, landscaped curbside planting beds, and surrounding low- to mid-rise buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The building meets a landscaped urban street edge, with a transparent double-height ground-floor lobby opening out to the pedestrian path.
- Composition rhythm
- Steady vertical rhythm created by closely spaced blue mullions running the full height of the tower.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate institutional
- Program
- Corporate headquarters or technology campus
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, painted-metal, concrete, paving
- Visual identifiers
- blue-metal-grid, tall-office-tower, glazed-lobby, structural-mullions
- Style tags
- contemporary, corporate, rationalist
- Visual tags
- commercial-tower, urban-campus, metal-facade, street-edge, contemporary
- Geometry
- Vertical rectangular tower volume with a stepped lower podium, featuring an extruded structural grid across the facade.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall system with prominent vertical metal fins or mullions projecting outwards.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame with a suspended curtain wall system.
- Spatial scale
- High-rise office tower scale, approximately twelve to fourteen stories, towering over pedestrian-scaled street frontages.
- Lighting
- Diffused daylight under an overcast sky casting soft shadows and highlighting the blue metallic sheen of the facade fins.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, crisp, and professional urban atmosphere under soft, cool daylight.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with mature trees, landscaped curbside planting beds, and surrounding low- to mid-rise buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The building meets a landscaped urban street edge, with a transparent double-height ground-floor lobby opening out to the pedestrian path.
- Composition rhythm
- Steady vertical rhythm created by closely spaced blue mullions running the full height of the tower.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate institutional
- Program
- Corporate headquarters or technology campus
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture