Perspective House
Perspective House is a high-rise residential tower featuring continuous perimeter balconies and a transparent retail podium, useful as a precedent for repetitive multi-family housing facades.
- What we like about this project
- The slender proportions of the balcony structural edges maintain visual lightness despite the heavy repetition.
Materials
- glass
- concrete
- metal
- stone
Visual identifiers
- wrap-around-balconies
- residential-tower
- glazed-podium
- repetitive-grid
Style tags
- contemporary
- rationalist
- residential
Visual tags
- high-rise
- residential
- balconies
- urban-context
- glazed-base
- Geometry
- Rectangular tower massing featuring continuous perimeter balconies stacked vertically, sitting atop a multi-story glazed podium base.
- Facade system
- Stacked perimeter cantilevered balconies with glass railings and floor-to-ceiling glazing behind.
- Structural guess
- Concrete core with flat-plate floor slabs extended to form cantilevered balconies.
- Spatial scale
- High-rise residential tower approximately twenty stories tall, dominating the street corner.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sunlight with clear blue sky casting soft shadows across the facade elements.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, orderly daylight accentuating the rhythmic geometry of stacked balconies against the city skyline.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban intersection with multi-lane streets, mature street trees, and varied mid-rise to high-rise neighboring commercial and residential blocks.
- Spatial experience
- Viewed from across a wide urban street intersection, the tower presents a highly repetitive grid of outdoor living spaces that contrast with surrounding curved and solid buildings.
- Composition rhythm
- Dense vertical repetition of balcony slabs and railings creating a unified grid texture over the primary elevations.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban high-rise architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential tower with ground-floor retail podium
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, concrete, metal, stone
- Visual identifiers
- wrap-around-balconies, residential-tower, glazed-podium, repetitive-grid
- Style tags
- contemporary, rationalist, residential
- Visual tags
- high-rise, residential, balconies, urban-context, glazed-base
- Geometry
- Rectangular tower massing featuring continuous perimeter balconies stacked vertically, sitting atop a multi-story glazed podium base.
- Facade system
- Stacked perimeter cantilevered balconies with glass railings and floor-to-ceiling glazing behind.
- Structural guess
- Concrete core with flat-plate floor slabs extended to form cantilevered balconies.
- Spatial scale
- High-rise residential tower approximately twenty stories tall, dominating the street corner.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sunlight with clear blue sky casting soft shadows across the facade elements.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, orderly daylight accentuating the rhythmic geometry of stacked balconies against the city skyline.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban intersection with multi-lane streets, mature street trees, and varied mid-rise to high-rise neighboring commercial and residential blocks.
- Spatial experience
- Viewed from across a wide urban street intersection, the tower presents a highly repetitive grid of outdoor living spaces that contrast with surrounding curved and solid buildings.
- Composition rhythm
- Dense vertical repetition of balcony slabs and railings creating a unified grid texture over the primary elevations.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban high-rise architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential tower with ground-floor retail podium
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture