Film House
2024
An aerial view of Film House by White Red, illustrating a sophisticated urban infill strategy that combines stepped classical stone facades with a dark, dormered mansard roof and rooftop extension.
- What we like about this project
- The transition from a conventional historicist stone lower facade into a sleek, dark penthouse pavilion.
Materials
- stone
- metal
- glass
- slate
Visual identifiers
- mansard-roof
- dormer-windows
- stepped-massing
- rooftop-terrace
- urban-infill
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- urban
Visual tags
- exterior-facade
- aerial-view
- adaptive-reuse
- urban-context
- commercial-architecture
- Geometry
- Stepped urban massing transitioning from a traditional multi-story street wall into a dark, contemporary mansard roof volume with uniform dormers and a recessed penthouse pavilion.
- Facade system
- Combination of punched window openings in stone-clad lower floors and canted mansard cladding with projecting dormers.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame with masonry cladding and lightweight metal mansard framing.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story commercial building scale relative to surrounding street traffic and pedestrians.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting clear, sharp shadows across the facade bays and mansard dormer reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, bustling urban daylight emphasizing the layering of historical context and modern intervention.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban street context with surrounding mid-rise commercial and historic buildings, featuring a city skyline in the background.
- Spatial experience
- The building engages the dense urban fabric by stepping back to create terraces, establishing a dialogue between historic street scales and modern rooftop additions.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal stone facade banding intersected by a regular, rhythmic array of dark-framed mansard dormers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual urban architecture
- Program
- Commercial office and mixed-use building
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stone, metal, glass, slate
- Visual identifiers
- mansard-roof, dormer-windows, stepped-massing, rooftop-terrace, urban-infill
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, urban
- Visual tags
- exterior-facade, aerial-view, adaptive-reuse, urban-context, commercial-architecture
- Geometry
- Stepped urban massing transitioning from a traditional multi-story street wall into a dark, contemporary mansard roof volume with uniform dormers and a recessed penthouse pavilion.
- Facade system
- Combination of punched window openings in stone-clad lower floors and canted mansard cladding with projecting dormers.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame with masonry cladding and lightweight metal mansard framing.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story commercial building scale relative to surrounding street traffic and pedestrians.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting clear, sharp shadows across the facade bays and mansard dormer reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, bustling urban daylight emphasizing the layering of historical context and modern intervention.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban street context with surrounding mid-rise commercial and historic buildings, featuring a city skyline in the background.
- Spatial experience
- The building engages the dense urban fabric by stepping back to create terraces, establishing a dialogue between historic street scales and modern rooftop additions.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal stone facade banding intersected by a regular, rhythmic array of dark-framed mansard dormers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual urban architecture
- Program
- Commercial office and mixed-use building
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture