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A civic building facade precedent utilizing an expressive structural grid with large circular voids and integrated planting to bridge interior exhibition spaces with outdoor loggias.
- What we like about this project
- Large circular voids cut across multiple floor levels, allowing trees to span vertically through upper stories.
Materials
- concrete
- glass
- planting
- steel
Visual identifiers
- gridded-concrete-facade
- arched-cutouts
- integrated-greenery
- open-loggias
Style tags
- contemporary
- experimental
- porous
- expressive-structure
Visual tags
- civic
- porous-facade
- vertical-garden
- night-rendering
- multi-level
- Geometry
- A clear orthogonal structural grid featuring large integrated circular and semi-circular cutouts intersecting multiple floor plates, creating deep loggias and multi-level spatial connections.
- Facade system
- Exposed structural grid with large arched and circular openings functioning as deep outdoor balconies and light wells.
- Structural guess
- Cast-in-place concrete waffle slab or heavy post-and-beam frame.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise civic building, roughly seven stories high with human figures providing scale on open balconies.
- Lighting
- Warm interior illumination emanates through the open gridded facade against a dark dusk sky, creating strong vertical and horizontal rhythm.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting and luminous at night, balancing heavy concrete frames with warm interior life and lush foliage.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge at night with blurred traffic lights and adjacent city buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The deep facade grid merges interior galleries with outdoor garden loggias, presenting an open, porous civic section toward the street.
- Composition rhythm
- A strict structural grid modulated by large-scale curved subtractions that break the orthogonal monotony.
- Style reading
- Contemporary experimental civic architecture
- Program
- Cultural or civic center with exhibition galleries and public garden terraces.
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- concrete, glass, planting, steel
- Visual identifiers
- gridded-concrete-facade, arched-cutouts, integrated-greenery, open-loggias
- Style tags
- contemporary, experimental, porous, expressive-structure
- Visual tags
- civic, porous-facade, vertical-garden, night-rendering, multi-level
- Geometry
- A clear orthogonal structural grid featuring large integrated circular and semi-circular cutouts intersecting multiple floor plates, creating deep loggias and multi-level spatial connections.
- Facade system
- Exposed structural grid with large arched and circular openings functioning as deep outdoor balconies and light wells.
- Structural guess
- Cast-in-place concrete waffle slab or heavy post-and-beam frame.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise civic building, roughly seven stories high with human figures providing scale on open balconies.
- Lighting
- Warm interior illumination emanates through the open gridded facade against a dark dusk sky, creating strong vertical and horizontal rhythm.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting and luminous at night, balancing heavy concrete frames with warm interior life and lush foliage.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge at night with blurred traffic lights and adjacent city buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The deep facade grid merges interior galleries with outdoor garden loggias, presenting an open, porous civic section toward the street.
- Composition rhythm
- A strict structural grid modulated by large-scale curved subtractions that break the orthogonal monotony.
- Style reading
- Contemporary experimental civic architecture
- Program
- Cultural or civic center with exhibition galleries and public garden terraces.
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture