Slate
An exterior facade precedent showing how projecting cubic frames and deep reveals create a dynamic, sculptural grid on a multi-story building.
- What we like about this project
- The angled protrusions create a shifting visual rhythm that changes dramatically depending on viewing angle.
Materials
- metal-panels
- glass
- composite-panel
Visual identifiers
- projecting-frames
- white-panels
- deep-recessed-windows
- cubic-massing
Style tags
- contemporary
- sculptural
- modern
Visual tags
- facade-articulation
- grid
- contemporary
- monochrome
- high-rise
- volumetric
- Geometry
- Upward low-angle shot revealing a stepped, cubic facade massing with deep rectilinear projecting and receding frames.
- Facade system
- Prefabricated modular frame system with deep window reveals and contrasting black and white panels.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame with curtain wall infill.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story building scale viewed from street level looking upward.
- Lighting
- Soft, overcast daylight against a grey sky, creating crisp contrast between white projecting frames and dark glazed recesses.
- Atmosphere
- Sharp, graphic, and monumental under diffused grey light.
- Environmental context
- Urban setting with open sky background and minimal contextual framing except a hint of green foliage on the right.
- Spatial experience
- Looking up from the ground, the facade creates a dense, layered grid of protruding volumetric frames that play with perspective.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular grid punctuated by staggered volumetric projections that break flat verticality.
- Style reading
- Contemporary sculptural rationalism
- Program
- Multi-family residential or mixed-use commercial
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- metal-panels, glass, composite-panel
- Visual identifiers
- projecting-frames, white-panels, deep-recessed-windows, cubic-massing
- Style tags
- contemporary, sculptural, modern
- Visual tags
- facade-articulation, grid, contemporary, monochrome, high-rise, volumetric
- Geometry
- Upward low-angle shot revealing a stepped, cubic facade massing with deep rectilinear projecting and receding frames.
- Facade system
- Prefabricated modular frame system with deep window reveals and contrasting black and white panels.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame with curtain wall infill.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story building scale viewed from street level looking upward.
- Lighting
- Soft, overcast daylight against a grey sky, creating crisp contrast between white projecting frames and dark glazed recesses.
- Atmosphere
- Sharp, graphic, and monumental under diffused grey light.
- Environmental context
- Urban setting with open sky background and minimal contextual framing except a hint of green foliage on the right.
- Spatial experience
- Looking up from the ground, the facade creates a dense, layered grid of protruding volumetric frames that play with perspective.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular grid punctuated by staggered volumetric projections that break flat verticality.
- Style reading
- Contemporary sculptural rationalism
- Program
- Multi-family residential or mixed-use commercial
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture