AntiStatics-2024-8
北京
An innovative architectural precedent demonstrating how a complex, undulating perforated screen can transform a flat gabled street facade into a dynamic sculptural threshold.
- What we like about this project
- The gridded screen balloons outward like a soft fabric draped over an invisible form, defying the rigidity of its material.
Materials
- brick
- perforated-metal
- glass
- steel
Visual identifiers
- undulating-screen
- perforated-grid
- gabled-facade
- brick-masonry
- dual-state-lighting
Style tags
- parametric
- contemporary
- sculptural
- hybrid
Visual tags
- parametric-design
- facade-screen
- urban-infill
- sculptural-envelope
- dual-view
- Geometry
- Symmetrical gabled brick facade layered with a complex, sculptural three-dimensional gridded screen that pushes outward in organic folds.
- Facade system
- Layered double-skin facade featuring inner brickwork and an outer parametric 3D-formed gridded screen.
- Structural guess
- Steel subframe supporting the custom-formed outer screen anchored to a primary masonry and concrete structure.
- Spatial scale
- Pedestrian-scale two-story gabled frontage with a screen spanning nearly the full width and height of the lower floor.
- Lighting
- Daylight on the right illuminates the crisp grid shadows and bicycle rider; artificial interior lighting on the left glows through the undulating screen perforations at dusk.
- Atmosphere
- Striking contrast between rigid traditional masonry and fluid, glowing digital form-finding.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with neighboring low-rise buildings and overhead utility wires.
- Spatial experience
- The street elevation transitions from a flat, traditional brick plane into a dramatic, porous threshold where the sculptural screen billows outward.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical gable framing an asymmetrical, fluid center bulge that breaks the regular gridded rhythm.
- Style reading
- Parametric contemporary vernacular fusion
- Program
- Cultural or commercial storefront exhibition space
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, perforated-metal, glass, steel
- Visual identifiers
- undulating-screen, perforated-grid, gabled-facade, brick-masonry, dual-state-lighting
- Style tags
- parametric, contemporary, sculptural, hybrid
- Visual tags
- parametric-design, facade-screen, urban-infill, sculptural-envelope, dual-view
- Geometry
- Symmetrical gabled brick facade layered with a complex, sculptural three-dimensional gridded screen that pushes outward in organic folds.
- Facade system
- Layered double-skin facade featuring inner brickwork and an outer parametric 3D-formed gridded screen.
- Structural guess
- Steel subframe supporting the custom-formed outer screen anchored to a primary masonry and concrete structure.
- Spatial scale
- Pedestrian-scale two-story gabled frontage with a screen spanning nearly the full width and height of the lower floor.
- Lighting
- Daylight on the right illuminates the crisp grid shadows and bicycle rider; artificial interior lighting on the left glows through the undulating screen perforations at dusk.
- Atmosphere
- Striking contrast between rigid traditional masonry and fluid, glowing digital form-finding.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with neighboring low-rise buildings and overhead utility wires.
- Spatial experience
- The street elevation transitions from a flat, traditional brick plane into a dramatic, porous threshold where the sculptural screen billows outward.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical gable framing an asymmetrical, fluid center bulge that breaks the regular gridded rhythm.
- Style reading
- Parametric contemporary vernacular fusion
- Program
- Cultural or commercial storefront exhibition space
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture