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A dual-view precedent by vari architects demonstrating the integration of a heavy textured street base with an open multi-story interior atrium.
- What we like about this project
- The contrast between the heavy rustic exterior stone wall and the precision steel stair inside the atrium.
Materials
- brick
- stone
- concrete
- steel
- glass
- timber
Visual identifiers
- red-brick-facade
- louvered-canopy
- interior-atrium
- exposed-concrete-structure
Style tags
- contemporary
- industrial
- adaptive-reuse
- architectural-lighting
Visual tags
- adaptive-reuse
- mixed-use
- atrium
- urban-facade
- industrial-chic
- Geometry
- Multi-story symmetrical facade featuring a solid base with integrated louvers and warm upper brick volume, contrasted with a multi-level interior atrium and open central stair.
- Facade system
- Combination of structural brick masonry, punched glass windows, and ground-level louvered screens.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with brick infill and exposed interior waffle slabs/beams.
- Spatial scale
- Large commercial or institutional scale spanning multi-story massing.
- Lighting
- Dusk exterior lighting with warm concealed perimeter strips contrasting against cool interior overhead task lights.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting and structured, bridging heavy external mass with transparent, lit interior voids.
- Environmental context
- Urban street frontage flanked by trees, opening directly into an illuminated ground-level lobby.
- Spatial experience
- Transitioning from a guarded, heavy stone and louvered street base into a porous, luminous multi-story vertical atrium.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical window bays above a horizontal louvered and stone-clad base.
- Style reading
- Contemporary industrial adaptive reuse
- Program
- Commercial office or creative workspace
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, stone, concrete, steel, glass, timber
- Visual identifiers
- red-brick-facade, louvered-canopy, interior-atrium, exposed-concrete-structure
- Style tags
- contemporary, industrial, adaptive-reuse, architectural-lighting
- Visual tags
- adaptive-reuse, mixed-use, atrium, urban-facade, industrial-chic
- Geometry
- Multi-story symmetrical facade featuring a solid base with integrated louvers and warm upper brick volume, contrasted with a multi-level interior atrium and open central stair.
- Facade system
- Combination of structural brick masonry, punched glass windows, and ground-level louvered screens.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with brick infill and exposed interior waffle slabs/beams.
- Spatial scale
- Large commercial or institutional scale spanning multi-story massing.
- Lighting
- Dusk exterior lighting with warm concealed perimeter strips contrasting against cool interior overhead task lights.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting and structured, bridging heavy external mass with transparent, lit interior voids.
- Environmental context
- Urban street frontage flanked by trees, opening directly into an illuminated ground-level lobby.
- Spatial experience
- Transitioning from a guarded, heavy stone and louvered street base into a porous, luminous multi-story vertical atrium.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical window bays above a horizontal louvered and stone-clad base.
- Style reading
- Contemporary industrial adaptive reuse
- Program
- Commercial office or creative workspace
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture