District West
A commercial building facade precedent featuring a monumental glazed atrium carved beneath stacked timber-framed office levels, ideal for campus-scale mixed-use design.
- What we like about this project
- Massive upper volume appears to float effortlessly over a fully glazed, transparent ground-level multi-story void.
Materials
- timber
- glass
- steel
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- timber-structure
- multi-story-atrium
- cantilevered-office-floors
- curtain-wall
- landscaped-terraces
Style tags
- contemporary
- sustainable
- mass-timber
- commercial
Visual tags
- commercial-office
- mass-timber
- transparency
- large-scale
- atrium
- podium
- Geometry
- Symmetrical massing with a central multi-story glazed atrium recessed beneath stacked cantilevered timber and glass office floors. Lower wings feature landscaped terraces.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall combined with exposed timber framing and soffits.
- Structural guess
- Mass timber framing with primary structural columns and concrete core or transfer trusses supporting upper cantilevers.
- Spatial scale
- Large commercial scale; the main entrance atrium is several stories high relative to pedestrians gathered at the steps.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight with clear reflections on extensive curtain wall glazing and warm interior illumination washing the timber soffit.
- Atmosphere
- Welcoming yet monumental, balancing warm natural wood tones with crisp high-tech curtain wall transparency.
- Environmental context
- Surrounded by low trees and green landscape buffers at the edge of an urban or suburban campus setting.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the parkland foreground, the visitor is drawn into a monumental, transparent central atrium sheltered beneath massive overhangs.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal banding of office windows intersected by a strong vertical central transparency and rhythmic column lines.
- Style reading
- Contemporary sustainable commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial office headquarters with ground-level public entry and amenity terraces
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, glass, steel, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- timber-structure, multi-story-atrium, cantilevered-office-floors, curtain-wall, landscaped-terraces
- Style tags
- contemporary, sustainable, mass-timber, commercial
- Visual tags
- commercial-office, mass-timber, transparency, large-scale, atrium, podium
- Geometry
- Symmetrical massing with a central multi-story glazed atrium recessed beneath stacked cantilevered timber and glass office floors. Lower wings feature landscaped terraces.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall combined with exposed timber framing and soffits.
- Structural guess
- Mass timber framing with primary structural columns and concrete core or transfer trusses supporting upper cantilevers.
- Spatial scale
- Large commercial scale; the main entrance atrium is several stories high relative to pedestrians gathered at the steps.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight with clear reflections on extensive curtain wall glazing and warm interior illumination washing the timber soffit.
- Atmosphere
- Welcoming yet monumental, balancing warm natural wood tones with crisp high-tech curtain wall transparency.
- Environmental context
- Surrounded by low trees and green landscape buffers at the edge of an urban or suburban campus setting.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the parkland foreground, the visitor is drawn into a monumental, transparent central atrium sheltered beneath massive overhangs.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal banding of office windows intersected by a strong vertical central transparency and rhythmic column lines.
- Style reading
- Contemporary sustainable commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial office headquarters with ground-level public entry and amenity terraces
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture