台湾新北市新板极-TOP-高层住宅
上海
An exterior precedent demonstrating how a massive brick podium can frame a luminous, double-height interior library volume to activate the urban street edge at dusk.
- What we like about this project
- Vertical linear pendant lights arrayed across the ceiling mirror the rhythmic verticality of the interior bookshelf bays.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- steel
- timber
Visual identifiers
- brick-portico
- double-height-glazing
- linear-ceiling-lights
- full-height-bookshelves
Style tags
- contemporary
- warm-minimal
- tectonic
Visual tags
- civic
- threshold
- dusk-lighting
- podium
- warm-materials
- street-edge
- Geometry
- Symmetrical heavy brick piers frame a deeply recessed, fully glazed double-height volume featuring a projecting planter box along the base.
- Facade system
- Heavy brick masonry structural frame enclosing large-scale structural glass curtain wall panels.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with non-structural brick cladding and full-height curtain wall glazing.
- Spatial scale
- Grand podium scale; the recessed volume stands roughly two stories high relative to the sidewalk.
- Lighting
- Twilight exterior with warm uplighting on the brick piers contrasting against cool vertical linear pendant fixtures inside the double-height volume.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting, intellectual, and warm against the cooler evening city tones.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner at dusk, surrounded by neighboring residential or commercial mid-rise structures.
- Spatial experience
- The deep brick portico creates an inviting, protected threshold between the public street and the warm, glowing interior.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong vertical brick piers balanced by the horizontal bands of planters and stacked interior shelving.
- Style reading
- Contemporary civic architectural design with warm tactile materiality
- Program
- Residential lobby and community library or reading room
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, steel, timber
- Visual identifiers
- brick-portico, double-height-glazing, linear-ceiling-lights, full-height-bookshelves
- Style tags
- contemporary, warm-minimal, tectonic
- Visual tags
- civic, threshold, dusk-lighting, podium, warm-materials, street-edge
- Geometry
- Symmetrical heavy brick piers frame a deeply recessed, fully glazed double-height volume featuring a projecting planter box along the base.
- Facade system
- Heavy brick masonry structural frame enclosing large-scale structural glass curtain wall panels.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with non-structural brick cladding and full-height curtain wall glazing.
- Spatial scale
- Grand podium scale; the recessed volume stands roughly two stories high relative to the sidewalk.
- Lighting
- Twilight exterior with warm uplighting on the brick piers contrasting against cool vertical linear pendant fixtures inside the double-height volume.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting, intellectual, and warm against the cooler evening city tones.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner at dusk, surrounded by neighboring residential or commercial mid-rise structures.
- Spatial experience
- The deep brick portico creates an inviting, protected threshold between the public street and the warm, glowing interior.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong vertical brick piers balanced by the horizontal bands of planters and stacked interior shelving.
- Style reading
- Contemporary civic architectural design with warm tactile materiality
- Program
- Residential lobby and community library or reading room
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture