Exterior facade of a multi-story office building
北京
A corporate office building facade precedent featuring stacked cantilevered floor plates with curved corners and floor-to-ceiling glass, useful for studies in horizontal banding and transparency.
- What we like about this project
- The upper volumes subtly shift forward and backward, creating dynamic cantilevers and recessed terrace zones at each level.
Materials
- glass
- aluminum
- painted-concrete
Visual identifiers
- stacked-floor-plates
- rounded-corners
- continuous-glazing
- offset-cantilevers
Style tags
- contemporary
- modernist
- corporate
Visual tags
- commercial
- office
- contemporary
- curtain-wall
- transparent
- horizontal-emphasis
- Geometry
- Symmetrical front elevation showing four stacked horizontal tiers with rounded corners, where upper levels step back slightly relative to the level below in an alternating offset fashion.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with integrated floor edge bands and frameless glass balustrades on recessed balconies.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete floor slabs cantilevered from a central core with perimeter column grid.
- Spatial scale
- A four-story commercial or office building scaled relative to street width and passing automobiles.
- Lighting
- Overcast daylight with warm interior artificial lighting glowing from within the floor plates, creating high contrast against the cool grey exterior.
- Atmosphere
- Cool, calm twilight atmosphere dominated by the warm glow of internal workspaces against a grey sky.
- Environmental context
- Urban roadside setting with asphalt road, blurred moving vehicles, street lamps, bare trees, and low-rise neighboring buildings under an overcast sky.
- Spatial experience
- From the street view, the building presents a transparent, open facade that reveals internal office activity and circulation across multiple levels.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong horizontal banding created by alternating solid white spandrel slabs and transparent glass bands, balanced by the vertical rhythm of street lamps and trees.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate modernism
- Program
- Commercial office headquarters
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, aluminum, painted-concrete
- Visual identifiers
- stacked-floor-plates, rounded-corners, continuous-glazing, offset-cantilevers
- Style tags
- contemporary, modernist, corporate
- Visual tags
- commercial, office, contemporary, curtain-wall, transparent, horizontal-emphasis
- Geometry
- Symmetrical front elevation showing four stacked horizontal tiers with rounded corners, where upper levels step back slightly relative to the level below in an alternating offset fashion.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with integrated floor edge bands and frameless glass balustrades on recessed balconies.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete floor slabs cantilevered from a central core with perimeter column grid.
- Spatial scale
- A four-story commercial or office building scaled relative to street width and passing automobiles.
- Lighting
- Overcast daylight with warm interior artificial lighting glowing from within the floor plates, creating high contrast against the cool grey exterior.
- Atmosphere
- Cool, calm twilight atmosphere dominated by the warm glow of internal workspaces against a grey sky.
- Environmental context
- Urban roadside setting with asphalt road, blurred moving vehicles, street lamps, bare trees, and low-rise neighboring buildings under an overcast sky.
- Spatial experience
- From the street view, the building presents a transparent, open facade that reveals internal office activity and circulation across multiple levels.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong horizontal banding created by alternating solid white spandrel slabs and transparent glass bands, balanced by the vertical rhythm of street lamps and trees.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate modernism
- Program
- Commercial office headquarters
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture