Slate
An exterior architectural photograph of Slate, showcasing a highly articulated facade system defined by bold, stacked cantilevered volumes and contrasting monochrome panels.
- What we like about this project
- The interlocking angles of the balconies create an optical illusion of shifting geometry as the facade rises.
Materials
- metal-panel
- glass
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- cantilevered-balconies
- monochrome-facade
- staggered-volumes
- angular-frames
Style tags
- contemporary
- geometric
- expressionist-modern
Visual tags
- facade-articulation
- contemporary
- monochrome
- stacked-volumes
- balconies
- geometric
- Geometry
- Upward low-angle perspective showing a multi-story building volume with articulated, protruding volumetric frames that stack and stagger across the facade.
- Facade system
- Precast or metal panelized cladding system featuring deep projecting balcony modules with alternating dark and white finishes.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame or steel superstructure supporting deep cantilevered balcony slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story building facade captured from street level, highlighting individual stacked residential or commercial floors.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight casting soft shadows within the deep reveals of the cantilevered balcony frames.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, graphic, and architectural under flat gray daylight.
- Environmental context
- Urban exterior viewed against an overcast sky, focusing entirely on the dynamic envelope.
- Spatial experience
- Looking up from ground level, the projecting balconies create a dynamic, sculptural rhythm overhead that breaks the flat plane of the exterior.
- Composition rhythm
- Dynamic diagonal and staggered repetition of projecting volumetric frames up the vertical face.
- Style reading
- Contemporary geometric residential or commercial envelope
- Program
- Multi-family residential or mixed-use building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- metal-panel, glass, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- cantilevered-balconies, monochrome-facade, staggered-volumes, angular-frames
- Style tags
- contemporary, geometric, expressionist-modern
- Visual tags
- facade-articulation, contemporary, monochrome, stacked-volumes, balconies, geometric
- Geometry
- Upward low-angle perspective showing a multi-story building volume with articulated, protruding volumetric frames that stack and stagger across the facade.
- Facade system
- Precast or metal panelized cladding system featuring deep projecting balcony modules with alternating dark and white finishes.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame or steel superstructure supporting deep cantilevered balcony slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story building facade captured from street level, highlighting individual stacked residential or commercial floors.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight casting soft shadows within the deep reveals of the cantilevered balcony frames.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, graphic, and architectural under flat gray daylight.
- Environmental context
- Urban exterior viewed against an overcast sky, focusing entirely on the dynamic envelope.
- Spatial experience
- Looking up from ground level, the projecting balconies create a dynamic, sculptural rhythm overhead that breaks the flat plane of the exterior.
- Composition rhythm
- Dynamic diagonal and staggered repetition of projecting volumetric frames up the vertical face.
- Style reading
- Contemporary geometric residential or commercial envelope
- Program
- Multi-family residential or mixed-use building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture