Medium Scale
A street-facing architectural precedent by Andmore Partners featuring low-rise massing, contrasting panel cladding, and a recessed central entry.
- What we like about this project
- The contrasting dark and light volumes are visually bridged by a recessed, warm-toned wood-accented entry courtyard.
Materials
- metal-panels
- glass
- stucco
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- metal-panels
- punched-windows
- recessed-entry
- low-rise-massing
Style tags
- contemporary
- commercial
- clean-lines
Visual tags
- commercial
- street-facade
- contemporary
- asymmetrical
- twilight
- Geometry
- Low-rise articulated volumes step slightly back from the street edge, featuring a central recessed entry courtyard and asymmetrical window placements.
- Facade system
- Rainscreen panel system with integrated vertical metal siding and dark-framed punched windows.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or wood frame construction with non-structural rainscreen cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story horizontal massing tailored to pedestrian scale along the commercial street edge.
- Lighting
- Even, twilight illumination with warm interior lights and canopy downlights creating a soft glow along the base.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, welcoming civic mood under a twilight sky with warm interior accents.
- Environmental context
- Urban street frontage with asphalt roadway in the foreground and sparse landscaping integrated into a raised planter base.
- Spatial experience
- The composition presents an inviting, approachable street edge with a low retaining wall and clear focal entry point between two distinct massing blocks.
- Composition rhythm
- Alternating vertical window modules and varied panel cladding create an irregular, dynamic rhythm across the facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial vernacular
- Program
- Medical office or community healthcare facility
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- metal-panels, glass, stucco, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- metal-panels, punched-windows, recessed-entry, low-rise-massing
- Style tags
- contemporary, commercial, clean-lines
- Visual tags
- commercial, street-facade, contemporary, asymmetrical, twilight
- Geometry
- Low-rise articulated volumes step slightly back from the street edge, featuring a central recessed entry courtyard and asymmetrical window placements.
- Facade system
- Rainscreen panel system with integrated vertical metal siding and dark-framed punched windows.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or wood frame construction with non-structural rainscreen cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story horizontal massing tailored to pedestrian scale along the commercial street edge.
- Lighting
- Even, twilight illumination with warm interior lights and canopy downlights creating a soft glow along the base.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, welcoming civic mood under a twilight sky with warm interior accents.
- Environmental context
- Urban street frontage with asphalt roadway in the foreground and sparse landscaping integrated into a raised planter base.
- Spatial experience
- The composition presents an inviting, approachable street edge with a low retaining wall and clear focal entry point between two distinct massing blocks.
- Composition rhythm
- Alternating vertical window modules and varied panel cladding create an irregular, dynamic rhythm across the facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial vernacular
- Program
- Medical office or community healthcare facility
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture