Atelier Apartments - Bates Smart - Rodrigo Vargas
2021
An exterior twilight precedent showing a stepped residential block along a waterfront, utilizing rhythmic vertical louvers and warm interior glow reflected in calm water.
- What we like about this project
- The calm water creates a near-perfect mirror image, making the building's glowing top setbacks appear suspended above the dark horizon.
Materials
- glass
- metal
- timber-or-composite-louvers
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- waterfront-reflection
- stepped-massing
- vertical-louvers
- dusk-lighting
Style tags
- contemporary
- modern
- residential
Visual tags
- waterfront
- residential
- dusk
- multi-family
- facade-screens
- Geometry
- A stepped, multi-story rectangular massing fronting a body of water, featuring horizontal balcony layers and vertical louvers.
- Facade system
- Unitized window wall with operable glazing and exterior vertical louvered shading screens.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame construction with flat floor slabs and column grids.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise multi-family residential building, approximately six to seven stories tall relative to the water surface.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with warm interior lighting glowing through glazed openings and louvers, creating crisp specular reflections on the water.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and luminous, defined by the quiet twilight reflections on the water.
- Environmental context
- Waterfront urban edge with adjacent mid-rise developments visible under an evening sky.
- Spatial experience
- The building sits across a calm stretch of water, creating a symmetrical reflection that doubles its vertical presence at dusk.
- Composition rhythm
- Balanced symmetrical composition of the building and its water reflection, modulated by regular vertical louver bays.
- Style reading
- Contemporary waterfront multi-family residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartments
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, metal, timber-or-composite-louvers, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- waterfront-reflection, stepped-massing, vertical-louvers, dusk-lighting
- Style tags
- contemporary, modern, residential
- Visual tags
- waterfront, residential, dusk, multi-family, facade-screens
- Geometry
- A stepped, multi-story rectangular massing fronting a body of water, featuring horizontal balcony layers and vertical louvers.
- Facade system
- Unitized window wall with operable glazing and exterior vertical louvered shading screens.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame construction with flat floor slabs and column grids.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise multi-family residential building, approximately six to seven stories tall relative to the water surface.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with warm interior lighting glowing through glazed openings and louvers, creating crisp specular reflections on the water.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and luminous, defined by the quiet twilight reflections on the water.
- Environmental context
- Waterfront urban edge with adjacent mid-rise developments visible under an evening sky.
- Spatial experience
- The building sits across a calm stretch of water, creating a symmetrical reflection that doubles its vertical presence at dusk.
- Composition rhythm
- Balanced symmetrical composition of the building and its water reflection, modulated by regular vertical louver bays.
- Style reading
- Contemporary waterfront multi-family residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartments
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture