District House
A contemporary mixed-use corner building precedent by Northworks Architects & Planners utilizing continuous horizontal slab edges and extensive structural glazing to articulate an urban infill site.
- What we like about this project
- The corner dissolves almost entirely into transparency while stepping back into a more solid, punched-window masonry rhythm along the side facade.
Materials
- glass
- metal
- masonry
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- cantilevered-slabs
- glazed-corner
- horizontal-bands
- curtain-wall
Style tags
- contemporary
- rationalist
- glazed
Visual tags
- mixed-use
- urban-infill
- corner-building
- twilight-photography
- contemporary-facade
- Geometry
- An asymmetrical corner massing featuring prominent cantilevered floor slabs that create stacked horizontal shadow lines, anchored by a transparent glazed ground floor and lower levels.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with protruding floor edge metal eyebrows/slabs and punched masonry-clad side volumes.
- Structural guess
- Concrete flat slab construction with steel or aluminum curtain wall framing.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise urban infill building, roughly five stories high, scaled to frame the street corner appropriately.
- Lighting
- Twilight blue hour sky contrasting with warm interior illumination glowing through expansive perimeter glazing; streaked car headlights add dynamic horizontal light vectors.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant and welcoming urban atmosphere shaped by glowing interior lighting and twilight street energy.
- Environmental context
- Urban intersection corner adjacent to traditional masonry streetwall buildings and mature street trees under a fading pastel dusk sky.
- Spatial experience
- From the street intersection, the building acts as a glowing urban beacon with high transparency at the retail corner transitioning to more solid residential bays down the side street.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong horizontal banding stacked vertically, interrupted by regular vertical mullion rhythms in the curtain wall.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban commercial-residential hybrid
- Program
- Mixed-use retail and residential
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, metal, masonry, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- cantilevered-slabs, glazed-corner, horizontal-bands, curtain-wall
- Style tags
- contemporary, rationalist, glazed
- Visual tags
- mixed-use, urban-infill, corner-building, twilight-photography, contemporary-facade
- Geometry
- An asymmetrical corner massing featuring prominent cantilevered floor slabs that create stacked horizontal shadow lines, anchored by a transparent glazed ground floor and lower levels.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with protruding floor edge metal eyebrows/slabs and punched masonry-clad side volumes.
- Structural guess
- Concrete flat slab construction with steel or aluminum curtain wall framing.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise urban infill building, roughly five stories high, scaled to frame the street corner appropriately.
- Lighting
- Twilight blue hour sky contrasting with warm interior illumination glowing through expansive perimeter glazing; streaked car headlights add dynamic horizontal light vectors.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant and welcoming urban atmosphere shaped by glowing interior lighting and twilight street energy.
- Environmental context
- Urban intersection corner adjacent to traditional masonry streetwall buildings and mature street trees under a fading pastel dusk sky.
- Spatial experience
- From the street intersection, the building acts as a glowing urban beacon with high transparency at the retail corner transitioning to more solid residential bays down the side street.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong horizontal banding stacked vertically, interrupted by regular vertical mullion rhythms in the curtain wall.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban commercial-residential hybrid
- Program
- Mixed-use retail and residential
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture