Skylab
An exterior corporate campus precedent featuring dramatic angled glass skybridges linking faceted metallic office volumes over a terraced plaza.
- What we like about this project
- The central skybridge features an undulating lower soffit that visually destabilizes the rigid geometry of the surrounding masses.
Materials
- glass
- metal-panel
- concrete
- stone
Visual identifiers
- glass-skybridge
- faceted-facade
- tiered-planters
- corporate-campus
Style tags
- contemporary
- expressionist
- corporate
Visual tags
- corporate
- skybridge
- faceted
- courtyard
- contemporary-office
- Geometry
- Complex multi-story angular office blocks flank a central paved courtyard, bridged overhead by faceted, angled glass enclosures.
- Facade system
- Unitized dark metal and angled glass curtain wall system.
- Structural guess
- Steel truss framing supporting the overhead bridging volumes with concrete and steel superstructure.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story corporate campus scale; multi-level skybridges span overhead between major volumes.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting crisp architectural shadows across the paved plaza and faceted metallic cladding.
- Atmosphere
- Dynamic, high-tech, and crisp under bright sunlight.
- Environmental context
- Urban corporate campus setting with terraced hardscape and young perimeter planting.
- Spatial experience
- The eye moves from the ground-level landscaped terracing upward across layered metallic facades toward the dramatic overhead glass skybridges.
- Composition rhythm
- Dynamic diagonal movements of the overhead skybridges contrasted against horizontal facade bands and angular organic planting beds.
- Style reading
- Contemporary expressionist corporate architecture
- Program
- Corporate headquarters campus
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, metal-panel, concrete, stone
- Visual identifiers
- glass-skybridge, faceted-facade, tiered-planters, corporate-campus
- Style tags
- contemporary, expressionist, corporate
- Visual tags
- corporate, skybridge, faceted, courtyard, contemporary-office
- Geometry
- Complex multi-story angular office blocks flank a central paved courtyard, bridged overhead by faceted, angled glass enclosures.
- Facade system
- Unitized dark metal and angled glass curtain wall system.
- Structural guess
- Steel truss framing supporting the overhead bridging volumes with concrete and steel superstructure.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story corporate campus scale; multi-level skybridges span overhead between major volumes.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting crisp architectural shadows across the paved plaza and faceted metallic cladding.
- Atmosphere
- Dynamic, high-tech, and crisp under bright sunlight.
- Environmental context
- Urban corporate campus setting with terraced hardscape and young perimeter planting.
- Spatial experience
- The eye moves from the ground-level landscaped terracing upward across layered metallic facades toward the dramatic overhead glass skybridges.
- Composition rhythm
- Dynamic diagonal movements of the overhead skybridges contrasted against horizontal facade bands and angular organic planting beds.
- Style reading
- Contemporary expressionist corporate architecture
- Program
- Corporate headquarters campus
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture