
小米汽车超级工厂
北京
A corporate factory facade precedent demonstrating the contrast between a transparent, welcoming ground level and a heavy, rhythmic cantilevered upper volume.
- What we like about this project
- The bright orange corporate logo acts as an asymmetric focal anchor on the rigid grid of the upper left facade.
Materials
- glass
- aluminum
- steel
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- curtain-wall
- cantilever
- corporate-headquarters
- vertical-fins
- illuminated-signage
Style tags
- contemporary
- corporate-modern
- high-tech
Visual tags
- corporate
- industrial-campus
- façade-rhythm
- transparency
- large-scale
- Geometry
- Symmetrical low-rise horizontal massing featuring a transparent double-height ground level supporting a large cantilevered upper volume clad in vertical fin-accented curtain wall.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with vertical sun-shading fins on upper levels.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with composite concrete floor slabs and heavy transfer trusses supporting the upper cantilever.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale corporate manufacturing and office complex; human scale is registered against ground-level entry doors and trees.
- Lighting
- Twilight or overcast ambient lighting with interior illumination glowing warmly through the lower transparency and upper floor plates.
- Atmosphere
- Professional, clean, and futuristic twilight glow emphasizing corporate scale and manufacturing precision.
- Environmental context
- Open industrial park or campus setting with organized young street trees lining the paved foreground.
- Spatial experience
- The long horizontal frontage presents an open, permeable boundary at ground level, contrasting with the dense, rhythmic cellular grid of the floating upper floors.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical mullion and fin rhythm across the upper floors, balanced by the wide, expansive horizontal layers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate high-tech architecture
- Program
- Automotive factory and corporate office headquarters
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, aluminum, steel, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- curtain-wall, cantilever, corporate-headquarters, vertical-fins, illuminated-signage
- Style tags
- contemporary, corporate-modern, high-tech
- Visual tags
- corporate, industrial-campus, façade-rhythm, transparency, large-scale
- Geometry
- Symmetrical low-rise horizontal massing featuring a transparent double-height ground level supporting a large cantilevered upper volume clad in vertical fin-accented curtain wall.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with vertical sun-shading fins on upper levels.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with composite concrete floor slabs and heavy transfer trusses supporting the upper cantilever.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale corporate manufacturing and office complex; human scale is registered against ground-level entry doors and trees.
- Lighting
- Twilight or overcast ambient lighting with interior illumination glowing warmly through the lower transparency and upper floor plates.
- Atmosphere
- Professional, clean, and futuristic twilight glow emphasizing corporate scale and manufacturing precision.
- Environmental context
- Open industrial park or campus setting with organized young street trees lining the paved foreground.
- Spatial experience
- The long horizontal frontage presents an open, permeable boundary at ground level, contrasting with the dense, rhythmic cellular grid of the floating upper floors.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical mullion and fin rhythm across the upper floors, balanced by the wide, expansive horizontal layers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate high-tech architecture
- Program
- Automotive factory and corporate office headquarters
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture