清华万科公共卫生与健康学院
深圳
An institutional facade precedent featuring deeply recessed window modules, contrasting red corrugated upper volumes, and crisp white structural frames designed by URBANUS.
- What we like about this project
- The upper level steps back into vibrant red corrugated volumes that sharply contrast the cooler grey grid below.
Materials
- metal-panel
- glass
- corrugated-metal
- concrete
- stucco
Visual identifiers
- grid-facade
- red-corrugated-cladding
- deep-window-reveals
- white-frame
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- rationalist
Visual tags
- institutional
- urban-facade
- grid-system
- waterfront
- contemporary-vernacular
- Geometry
- Orthogonal grid facade with a prominent white vertical frame and horizontal canopy, stepped back on upper floors with red corrugated cladding.
- Facade system
- Precast or metal panel grid system with deep angled reveals and corrugated metal siding on upper setbacks.
- Structural guess
- Concrete or steel frame structure with expressed perimeter columns and beams.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story institutional building, approximately five to six stories high relative to the human-scaled foreground terrace.
- Lighting
- Direct bright daylight casting strong angled shadows across the recessed window bays and white framing.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, clear daylight contrasting crisp modern geometry against natural waterfront vegetation.
- Environmental context
- Urban waterfront setting with mature weeping willow trees and flowering shrubs in the foreground.
- Spatial experience
- Faceted window reveals create depth along the facade, viewed past weeping willows and a traditional stone balustrade across a canal.
- Composition rhythm
- A strict vertical and horizontal grid punctuated by regular square window bays and offset red attic volumes.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual institutional architecture
- Program
- Academic or public health institute building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- metal-panel, glass, corrugated-metal, concrete, stucco
- Visual identifiers
- grid-facade, red-corrugated-cladding, deep-window-reveals, white-frame
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, rationalist
- Visual tags
- institutional, urban-facade, grid-system, waterfront, contemporary-vernacular
- Geometry
- Orthogonal grid facade with a prominent white vertical frame and horizontal canopy, stepped back on upper floors with red corrugated cladding.
- Facade system
- Precast or metal panel grid system with deep angled reveals and corrugated metal siding on upper setbacks.
- Structural guess
- Concrete or steel frame structure with expressed perimeter columns and beams.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story institutional building, approximately five to six stories high relative to the human-scaled foreground terrace.
- Lighting
- Direct bright daylight casting strong angled shadows across the recessed window bays and white framing.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, clear daylight contrasting crisp modern geometry against natural waterfront vegetation.
- Environmental context
- Urban waterfront setting with mature weeping willow trees and flowering shrubs in the foreground.
- Spatial experience
- Faceted window reveals create depth along the facade, viewed past weeping willows and a traditional stone balustrade across a canal.
- Composition rhythm
- A strict vertical and horizontal grid punctuated by regular square window bays and offset red attic volumes.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual institutional architecture
- Program
- Academic or public health institute building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture