混沌大学1
重庆
A striking urban intervention precedent showcasing the contrast between weathered historic brick and smooth board-formed concrete connected by a transparent architectural bridge.
- What we like about this project
- The glazed bridge acts as a luminous lantern bridging two completely different eras and material expressions.
Materials
- brick
- concrete
- glass
- steel
Visual identifiers
- brick-wall
- concrete-wall
- glass-bridge
- narrow-alley
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- minimal
Visual tags
- urban-infill
- historic-context
- juxtaposition
- bridge
- monolithic
- Geometry
- An extremely tight vertical corridor formed between two parallel contrasting vertical planes, spanned orthogonally by a transparent glazed bridge volume.
- Facade system
- Combination of historic load-bearing brickwork and smooth in-situ concrete wall with a glass-enclosed bridge connector.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry paired with cast-in-place concrete walls supporting a steel-framed glass connector bridge.
- Spatial scale
- Intimate human-scaled narrow gap between multi-story buildings; bridge spans roughly single-room width.
- Lighting
- Bright ambient light filtering down from the top gap of the narrow alley, creating strong side-shadows on the brick and grazing light on the concrete wall.
- Atmosphere
- Dramatic, contrasting atmosphere highlighting the tension between old and new materials.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban narrow alleyway flanked by historic masonry and contemporary interventions.
- Spatial experience
- The deep, compressed spatial sequence compresses the viewer between historic roughness and smooth monolith, opening up momentarily through the transparent bridge.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical heavy masonry and concrete surfaces punctuated by the horizontal floating glass connector.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual juxtaposition
- Program
- Educational or cultural campus infill
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, concrete, glass, steel
- Visual identifiers
- brick-wall, concrete-wall, glass-bridge, narrow-alley
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, minimal
- Visual tags
- urban-infill, historic-context, juxtaposition, bridge, monolithic
- Geometry
- An extremely tight vertical corridor formed between two parallel contrasting vertical planes, spanned orthogonally by a transparent glazed bridge volume.
- Facade system
- Combination of historic load-bearing brickwork and smooth in-situ concrete wall with a glass-enclosed bridge connector.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry paired with cast-in-place concrete walls supporting a steel-framed glass connector bridge.
- Spatial scale
- Intimate human-scaled narrow gap between multi-story buildings; bridge spans roughly single-room width.
- Lighting
- Bright ambient light filtering down from the top gap of the narrow alley, creating strong side-shadows on the brick and grazing light on the concrete wall.
- Atmosphere
- Dramatic, contrasting atmosphere highlighting the tension between old and new materials.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban narrow alleyway flanked by historic masonry and contemporary interventions.
- Spatial experience
- The deep, compressed spatial sequence compresses the viewer between historic roughness and smooth monolith, opening up momentarily through the transparent bridge.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical heavy masonry and concrete surfaces punctuated by the horizontal floating glass connector.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual juxtaposition
- Program
- Educational or cultural campus infill
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture