Exterior view of a round building with a diagrid exo-skeleton structure
An exterior precedent featuring a distinctive cylindrical building with an open diagrid structural exoskeleton, integrated into an artificial dune and coastal landscape.
- What we like about this project
- The outward batter of the circular walls makes the building appear to float or expand as it rises from the hill.
Materials
- steel
- glass
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- diagrid-facade
- cylindrical-volume
- coastal-setting
- elevated-dune-landscape
Style tags
- contemporary
- parametric
- structural-expressionist
Visual tags
- diagrid
- coastal
- monumental
- landscape-integration
- structural-skin
- Geometry
- Cylindrical mass with outward-sloping walls creating an inverted-cone silhouette, wrapped in a structural diagrid lattice.
- Facade system
- Exo-skeletal diagrid structural frame enclosing a continuous glazed cylinder with recessed floor slabs.
- Structural guess
- External steel diagrid frame working in tandem with a central core and floor slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story civic or commercial building scaled against walking figures on the foreground path.
- Lighting
- Warm low-angle coastal sunset light casting long shadows and glowing through the open lattice facade.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and monumental at dusk, balancing heavy structural geometry with soft coastal nature.
- Environmental context
- Coastal dunes and walking paths adjacent to an open sea horizon under a hazy sky.
- Spatial experience
- Approached via elevated winding coastal paths through dune grasses, the monolithic circular volume dominates the elevated horizon.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating diagonal diamond lattice creating a rhythmic mesh over the recessed circular glazing planes.
- Style reading
- Contemporary parametric structuralism
- Program
- Civic or multi-use coastal pavilion and observation structure
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- steel, glass, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- diagrid-facade, cylindrical-volume, coastal-setting, elevated-dune-landscape
- Style tags
- contemporary, parametric, structural-expressionist
- Visual tags
- diagrid, coastal, monumental, landscape-integration, structural-skin
- Geometry
- Cylindrical mass with outward-sloping walls creating an inverted-cone silhouette, wrapped in a structural diagrid lattice.
- Facade system
- Exo-skeletal diagrid structural frame enclosing a continuous glazed cylinder with recessed floor slabs.
- Structural guess
- External steel diagrid frame working in tandem with a central core and floor slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story civic or commercial building scaled against walking figures on the foreground path.
- Lighting
- Warm low-angle coastal sunset light casting long shadows and glowing through the open lattice facade.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and monumental at dusk, balancing heavy structural geometry with soft coastal nature.
- Environmental context
- Coastal dunes and walking paths adjacent to an open sea horizon under a hazy sky.
- Spatial experience
- Approached via elevated winding coastal paths through dune grasses, the monolithic circular volume dominates the elevated horizon.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating diagonal diamond lattice creating a rhythmic mesh over the recessed circular glazing planes.
- Style reading
- Contemporary parametric structuralism
- Program
- Civic or multi-use coastal pavilion and observation structure
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture