OKU House
A striking example of structural expressionism in mixed-use architecture, demonstrating massive cantilevers supported by expressive diagonal bracing over a landscaped podium.
- What we like about this project
- Expressed diagonal structural legs pierce through multiple stories to support the floating residential block.
Materials
- glass
- metal-panel
- concrete
- steel
Visual identifiers
- cantilever
- braced-columns
- grid-facade
- podium-massing
Style tags
- contemporary
- structural-expressionism
- rationalist
Visual tags
- mixed-use
- cantilever
- structural-expression
- urban-gateway
- contemporary-facade
- Geometry
- Complex multi-volume massing featuring heavy residential blocks cantilevering dramatically over lower podium blocks, supported by diagonal V-braced columns.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with integrated recessed balconies and expressed vertical mullions.
- Structural guess
- Steel transfer trusses and composite concrete-steel columns carrying upper residential mass.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale mixed-use development, spanning several mid-rise stories with towering cantilevered volumes.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight with warm sunlight striking the facade surfaces and casting soft shadows under cantilevers.
- Atmosphere
- Bold and optimistic urban scale with open public zones framed by monumental massing.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with neighboring development, cars, and scattered trees at street level.
- Spatial experience
- The composition creates a monumental urban gateway effect, opening up a covered ground-level public realm beneath massive floating residential blocks.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window grids contrasting sharply with the massive horizontal sweep of the cantilevers and podium.
- Style reading
- Contemporary structuralist architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use residential and commercial development
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, metal-panel, concrete, steel
- Visual identifiers
- cantilever, braced-columns, grid-facade, podium-massing
- Style tags
- contemporary, structural-expressionism, rationalist
- Visual tags
- mixed-use, cantilever, structural-expression, urban-gateway, contemporary-facade
- Geometry
- Complex multi-volume massing featuring heavy residential blocks cantilevering dramatically over lower podium blocks, supported by diagonal V-braced columns.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with integrated recessed balconies and expressed vertical mullions.
- Structural guess
- Steel transfer trusses and composite concrete-steel columns carrying upper residential mass.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale mixed-use development, spanning several mid-rise stories with towering cantilevered volumes.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight with warm sunlight striking the facade surfaces and casting soft shadows under cantilevers.
- Atmosphere
- Bold and optimistic urban scale with open public zones framed by monumental massing.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with neighboring development, cars, and scattered trees at street level.
- Spatial experience
- The composition creates a monumental urban gateway effect, opening up a covered ground-level public realm beneath massive floating residential blocks.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window grids contrasting sharply with the massive horizontal sweep of the cantilevers and podium.
- Style reading
- Contemporary structuralist architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use residential and commercial development
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture