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An aerial site precedent demonstrating how complex roofscapes can integrate central pedestrian bridges and curved lightwells to puncture deep floor plates.
- What we like about this project
- Curved semicircular lightwells drop multiple levels below the main roof plane.
Materials
- concrete
- metal
- glass
Visual identifiers
- roofscape
- aerial-view
- curved-lightwells
- pedestrian-bridge
Style tags
- contemporary
- industrial
- infrastructure
Visual tags
- aerial
- roof-design
- circulation
- industrial-context
- symmetrical
- Geometry
- Orthogonal roof massing split symmetrically by a central linear canyon bridged by pedestrian walkways, flanked by curved circular lightwells and mechanical equipment.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame with long-span roof trusses and slab construction.
- Spatial scale
- Macro scale overview showing human figures moving as tiny scale markers along the central bridge.
- Lighting
- Flat daylight casting short vertical shadows down into the recessed lightwells and central corridor.
- Atmosphere
- Rigid, geometric, and functional with an austere top-down clarity.
- Environmental context
- Expansive industrial or commercial roof deck with heavy HVAC equipment banks.
- Spatial experience
- A bird's-eye reading of deep vertical cuts and programmatic separation on a sprawling roof landscape.
- Composition rhythm
- Bilateral symmetry bisected by a continuous linear bridge and punctuated by repeating roof ridges and HVAC modules.
- Style reading
- Contemporary industrial architectural roofscape
- Program
- Commercial or cultural complex roof level
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- concrete, metal, glass
- Visual identifiers
- roofscape, aerial-view, curved-lightwells, pedestrian-bridge
- Style tags
- contemporary, industrial, infrastructure
- Visual tags
- aerial, roof-design, circulation, industrial-context, symmetrical
- Geometry
- Orthogonal roof massing split symmetrically by a central linear canyon bridged by pedestrian walkways, flanked by curved circular lightwells and mechanical equipment.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame with long-span roof trusses and slab construction.
- Spatial scale
- Macro scale overview showing human figures moving as tiny scale markers along the central bridge.
- Lighting
- Flat daylight casting short vertical shadows down into the recessed lightwells and central corridor.
- Atmosphere
- Rigid, geometric, and functional with an austere top-down clarity.
- Environmental context
- Expansive industrial or commercial roof deck with heavy HVAC equipment banks.
- Spatial experience
- A bird's-eye reading of deep vertical cuts and programmatic separation on a sprawling roof landscape.
- Composition rhythm
- Bilateral symmetry bisected by a continuous linear bridge and punctuated by repeating roof ridges and HVAC modules.
- Style reading
- Contemporary industrial architectural roofscape
- Program
- Commercial or cultural complex roof level
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture