Interiors
A conceptual precedent for rooftop interventions that subvert standard urban high-rise typologies by placing a traditional pitched-roof house atop a concrete grid.
- What we like about this project
- Cascading vines drape down from the rooftop slab, completely blurring the boundary between nature and building.
Materials
- concrete
- standing-seam-metal
- glass
- foliage
Visual identifiers
- rooftop-house
- hanging-vines
- concrete-grid
- surreal-juxtaposition
Style tags
- conceptual
- surrealist
- post-modern
Visual tags
- conceptual
- rooftop-extension
- surrealism
- hybrid-architecture
- contextual-contrast
- Geometry
- A regular, grid-like commercial concrete base topped by an incongruous residential pitched-roof structure with turrets and gables.
- Facade system
- Punched window concrete grid base with a standing seam metal roof structure on top.
- Structural guess
- Heavy concrete frame with a lightweight metal-clad rooftop addition.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story commercial base scaled against a single domestic residence sitting on the roof.
- Lighting
- Soft, muted twilight or dawn light casting warm glows from interior windows against a pale sky.
- Atmosphere
- Eerie, dreamlike stillness created by the blending of vernacular domesticity and corporate high-rise scale.
- Environmental context
- An urban high-rise context under an open sky, isolated against a neutral background.
- Spatial experience
- A surreal juxtaposition of suburban domesticity sitting precariously on top of an anonymous urban high-rise volume.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical and horizontal punched-window grid below meets an irregular, pitched-roof gabled silhouette above.
- Style reading
- Surreal conceptual architecture
- Program
- Residential penthouse on commercial base
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- concrete, standing-seam-metal, glass, foliage
- Visual identifiers
- rooftop-house, hanging-vines, concrete-grid, surreal-juxtaposition
- Style tags
- conceptual, surrealist, post-modern
- Visual tags
- conceptual, rooftop-extension, surrealism, hybrid-architecture, contextual-contrast
- Geometry
- A regular, grid-like commercial concrete base topped by an incongruous residential pitched-roof structure with turrets and gables.
- Facade system
- Punched window concrete grid base with a standing seam metal roof structure on top.
- Structural guess
- Heavy concrete frame with a lightweight metal-clad rooftop addition.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story commercial base scaled against a single domestic residence sitting on the roof.
- Lighting
- Soft, muted twilight or dawn light casting warm glows from interior windows against a pale sky.
- Atmosphere
- Eerie, dreamlike stillness created by the blending of vernacular domesticity and corporate high-rise scale.
- Environmental context
- An urban high-rise context under an open sky, isolated against a neutral background.
- Spatial experience
- A surreal juxtaposition of suburban domesticity sitting precariously on top of an anonymous urban high-rise volume.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical and horizontal punched-window grid below meets an irregular, pitched-roof gabled silhouette above.
- Style reading
- Surreal conceptual architecture
- Program
- Residential penthouse on commercial base
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture