Quince
An exterior street-level view demonstrating how large structural arches and multi-level planted terraces can create a porous, biophilic transition between public sidewalk and urban architecture.
- What we like about this project
- Deep multi-story structural cutout exposing a series of tiered, intensely planted sky bridges and walkway terraces.
Materials
- precast-concrete
- glass
- metal
- planted-vegetation
Visual identifiers
- monumental-arch
- planted-terraces
- precast-concrete-facade
- porous-ground-level
Style tags
- contemporary
- biophilic
- monolithic
Visual tags
- mixed-use
- biophilic
- urban-arcade
- setback-terraces
- contemporary
- Geometry
- Multi-story massing featuring a prominent monumental archway at the base, upper setback terraces, and cantilevered volumes forming a deep public portico.
- Facade system
- Precast concrete panel cladding with punched rectangular glazing and arched openings at grade.
- Structural guess
- Cast-in-place concrete frame with transfer slabs supporting upper residential massing.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story mixed-use scale, with a towering ground-level arcade framing human activity.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight filtering through the porous structural volumes and deep arches, creating strong highlights on planted balconies and soft shadow underneath.
- Atmosphere
- Welcoming and lush, blending heavy architectural mass with cascading greenery and filtered sunlight.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with sidewalk, parked cars, and pedestrian scale figures moving through the open ground level.
- Spatial experience
- Transition from open street edge into a shaded, porous colonnade and planted courtyard space framed by high structural elements.
- Composition rhythm
- Asymmetrical grouping of large arches, vertical window punctures, and horizontal stacked planting tiers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary biophilic urban architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use residential and commercial with public arcade
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- precast-concrete, glass, metal, planted-vegetation
- Visual identifiers
- monumental-arch, planted-terraces, precast-concrete-facade, porous-ground-level
- Style tags
- contemporary, biophilic, monolithic
- Visual tags
- mixed-use, biophilic, urban-arcade, setback-terraces, contemporary
- Geometry
- Multi-story massing featuring a prominent monumental archway at the base, upper setback terraces, and cantilevered volumes forming a deep public portico.
- Facade system
- Precast concrete panel cladding with punched rectangular glazing and arched openings at grade.
- Structural guess
- Cast-in-place concrete frame with transfer slabs supporting upper residential massing.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story mixed-use scale, with a towering ground-level arcade framing human activity.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight filtering through the porous structural volumes and deep arches, creating strong highlights on planted balconies and soft shadow underneath.
- Atmosphere
- Welcoming and lush, blending heavy architectural mass with cascading greenery and filtered sunlight.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with sidewalk, parked cars, and pedestrian scale figures moving through the open ground level.
- Spatial experience
- Transition from open street edge into a shaded, porous colonnade and planted courtyard space framed by high structural elements.
- Composition rhythm
- Asymmetrical grouping of large arches, vertical window punctures, and horizontal stacked planting tiers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary biophilic urban architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use residential and commercial with public arcade
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture