Fashion Museum Bath , City of Bath 2024 - 2030
An exterior courtyard precedent by 6a Architects featuring a multi-story glazed facade with integrated sun louvers set against historic masonry walls.
- What we like about this project
- The delicate layering of external louvers across the multi-story glass facade softens the urban courtyard scale.
Materials
- glass
- metal
- limestone
- timber
Visual identifiers
- glazed-curtain-wall
- external-louvers
- courtyard-garden
- masonry-walls
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- refined
Visual tags
- courtyard
- sun-shading
- cultural
- historic-context
- greenery
- Geometry
- Symmetrical courtyard elevation with a multi-story glazed curtain wall system fitted with external louver shades, flanked by solid masonry side walls.
- Facade system
- Glazed curtain wall with external adjustable sun shading louvers.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with masonry bearing walls on the perimeter.
- Spatial scale
- Courtyard proportion is intimate yet elevated, framed by multi-story building walls.
- Lighting
- Soft, overcast daylight casting gentle shadows within the courtyard and highlighting the louver frames.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, sheltered atmosphere combining controlled natural light with organic courtyard planting.
- Environmental context
- Urban courtyard hemmed in by historic masonry buildings, featuring lush planted beds in the foreground.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching through the verdant courtyard, the view focuses on the tall glazed facade with layered sunshades filtering light into the interior.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal louver bands repeat up the multi-story glazed elevation, balanced by vertical flanking masonry piers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual architecture
- Program
- Museum or cultural institution
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, metal, limestone, timber
- Visual identifiers
- glazed-curtain-wall, external-louvers, courtyard-garden, masonry-walls
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, refined
- Visual tags
- courtyard, sun-shading, cultural, historic-context, greenery
- Geometry
- Symmetrical courtyard elevation with a multi-story glazed curtain wall system fitted with external louver shades, flanked by solid masonry side walls.
- Facade system
- Glazed curtain wall with external adjustable sun shading louvers.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with masonry bearing walls on the perimeter.
- Spatial scale
- Courtyard proportion is intimate yet elevated, framed by multi-story building walls.
- Lighting
- Soft, overcast daylight casting gentle shadows within the courtyard and highlighting the louver frames.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, sheltered atmosphere combining controlled natural light with organic courtyard planting.
- Environmental context
- Urban courtyard hemmed in by historic masonry buildings, featuring lush planted beds in the foreground.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching through the verdant courtyard, the view focuses on the tall glazed facade with layered sunshades filtering light into the interior.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal louver bands repeat up the multi-story glazed elevation, balanced by vertical flanking masonry piers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual architecture
- Program
- Museum or cultural institution
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture