深圳龙华档案馆-Shenzhen-Longhua-Archive-Library
深圳 / 香港
An exterior architectural perspective of a massive civic archive library featuring a stepped concrete base and an elevated glazed volume bridged by large structural trusses.
- What we like about this project
- A smoothly curved wooden volume floats inside the vast open structural portal of the entry.
Materials
- exposed-concrete
- glass
- steel
- timber
Visual identifiers
- concrete-podium
- glass-tower
- structural-truss
- public-entry-portal
- suspended-volume
Style tags
- contemporary
- rationalist
- civic-monumental
Visual tags
- civic
- archive
- library
- monumental
- public-realm
- large-scale
- Geometry
- A massive orthogonal building with a heavy concrete podium base, a recessed central public entry portal with large structural trusses spanning overhead, and a tall upper glass tower volume.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall combined with exposed concrete panels and vertical louvers.
- Structural guess
- Steel transfer trusses over the central void supporting upper tower loads, atop a heavy concrete podium substructure.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental civic scale, featuring multi-story volumes and a grand central entry stair with human figures for scale.
- Lighting
- Dusk or overcast ambient light with strong internal warm glow emanating from the central atrium and public cavities.
- Atmosphere
- Impressive and welcoming civic monumentality softened by warm interior lighting and landscaped plaza approaches.
- Environmental context
- Urban public plaza with paved walkways, landscaped tree pits, and surrounding contemporary civic developments.
- Spatial experience
- The approach draws visitors inward through a grand landscaped plaza toward a deep, sheltered central public cavity that frames circulation stairs and suspended timber-clad volumes.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical central portal flanked by repetitive vertical louvers and punctuated by horizontal podium steps.
- Style reading
- Contemporary monumental civic architecture
- Program
- Archive and Library civic center
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- exposed-concrete, glass, steel, timber
- Visual identifiers
- concrete-podium, glass-tower, structural-truss, public-entry-portal, suspended-volume
- Style tags
- contemporary, rationalist, civic-monumental
- Visual tags
- civic, archive, library, monumental, public-realm, large-scale
- Geometry
- A massive orthogonal building with a heavy concrete podium base, a recessed central public entry portal with large structural trusses spanning overhead, and a tall upper glass tower volume.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall combined with exposed concrete panels and vertical louvers.
- Structural guess
- Steel transfer trusses over the central void supporting upper tower loads, atop a heavy concrete podium substructure.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental civic scale, featuring multi-story volumes and a grand central entry stair with human figures for scale.
- Lighting
- Dusk or overcast ambient light with strong internal warm glow emanating from the central atrium and public cavities.
- Atmosphere
- Impressive and welcoming civic monumentality softened by warm interior lighting and landscaped plaza approaches.
- Environmental context
- Urban public plaza with paved walkways, landscaped tree pits, and surrounding contemporary civic developments.
- Spatial experience
- The approach draws visitors inward through a grand landscaped plaza toward a deep, sheltered central public cavity that frames circulation stairs and suspended timber-clad volumes.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical central portal flanked by repetitive vertical louvers and punctuated by horizontal podium steps.
- Style reading
- Contemporary monumental civic architecture
- Program
- Archive and Library civic center
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture