Interim City: An Infrastructure Toolkit — UltraBarrio
An infrastructure-toolkit precedent using yellow perforated metal enclosures to create playful, transparent public spaces.
- What we like about this project
- The contrasting cyan blue background elements peek through the dominant yellow mesh framework.
Materials
- painted-metal
- steel
- concrete
- grass
Visual identifiers
- yellow-mesh
- perforated-metal
- tiered-seating
- permeable-enclosure
Style tags
- playful
- infrastructural
- contemporary
- bright
Visual tags
- public-realm
- playful
- bright-color
- infrastructure
- transparency
- Geometry
- Curved transparent mesh enclosure framing a multi-tiered platform and central column.
- Facade system
- Expanded or perforated metal mesh screen system over a light steel frame.
- Structural guess
- Lightweight steel framing with structural columns supporting an open-air enclosure.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled enclosure, approximately one to two stories high.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting soft shadows through perforated metal walls.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant, sun-drenched and airy with filtered views through colored mesh.
- Environmental context
- Outdoor public realm with grass foreground and distant structural supports.
- Spatial experience
- Glimpsed layers of yellow mesh and contrasting blue structural elements create a permeable outdoor room.
- Composition rhythm
- Grid pattern of the mesh creates a fine horizontal and vertical rhythm overlapping the landscape.
- Style reading
- Playful infrastructural intervention
- Program
- Public gathering space or play pavilion
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- painted-metal, steel, concrete, grass
- Visual identifiers
- yellow-mesh, perforated-metal, tiered-seating, permeable-enclosure
- Style tags
- playful, infrastructural, contemporary, bright
- Visual tags
- public-realm, playful, bright-color, infrastructure, transparency
- Geometry
- Curved transparent mesh enclosure framing a multi-tiered platform and central column.
- Facade system
- Expanded or perforated metal mesh screen system over a light steel frame.
- Structural guess
- Lightweight steel framing with structural columns supporting an open-air enclosure.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled enclosure, approximately one to two stories high.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting soft shadows through perforated metal walls.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant, sun-drenched and airy with filtered views through colored mesh.
- Environmental context
- Outdoor public realm with grass foreground and distant structural supports.
- Spatial experience
- Glimpsed layers of yellow mesh and contrasting blue structural elements create a permeable outdoor room.
- Composition rhythm
- Grid pattern of the mesh creates a fine horizontal and vertical rhythm overlapping the landscape.
- Style reading
- Playful infrastructural intervention
- Program
- Public gathering space or play pavilion
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture