Eric Colbert & Associates
An exterior facade detail precedent showcasing glazed corner construction combined with delicate horizontal sun-shading louvers, useful for commercial envelope studies.
- What we like about this project
- Continuous external sunshades wrap uninterrupted around the outside corner junction.
Materials
- aluminum
- glass
- metal-panel
Visual identifiers
- corner-glazing
- horizontal-sunshades
- metal-curtain-wall
- punched-windows
Style tags
- contemporary
- corporate
- rationalist
Visual tags
- facade-detail
- commercial-office
- sun-control
- metal-panel
- curtain-wall
- Geometry
- Orthogonal corner condition featuring multi-story punched windows and curtain wall framing, with projecting horizontal louvers mounted externally at window head and transom levels.
- Facade system
- Unitized metal curtain wall with projected aluminum sunshades and integrated vision glass.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete slab edge with hung curtain wall assembly.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story commercial office scale; punched window modules correspond to standard office floor-to-floor heights.
- Lighting
- Direct late-day sunlight casting sharp horizontal shadows from sunshades across glazing panels and spandrels.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, technical, and precise with high-contrast sun and shadow play.
- Environmental context
- Urban streetscape setting adjacent to older masonry context with decorative frieze detailing in the foreground.
- Spatial experience
- The layered facade creates deep reveals and reflections that visually dissolve the structural corner while projecting sunshades articulate horizontal scale.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical window bays intersected by continuous horizontal sunshades and spandrel bands.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial office building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- aluminum, glass, metal-panel
- Visual identifiers
- corner-glazing, horizontal-sunshades, metal-curtain-wall, punched-windows
- Style tags
- contemporary, corporate, rationalist
- Visual tags
- facade-detail, commercial-office, sun-control, metal-panel, curtain-wall
- Geometry
- Orthogonal corner condition featuring multi-story punched windows and curtain wall framing, with projecting horizontal louvers mounted externally at window head and transom levels.
- Facade system
- Unitized metal curtain wall with projected aluminum sunshades and integrated vision glass.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete slab edge with hung curtain wall assembly.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story commercial office scale; punched window modules correspond to standard office floor-to-floor heights.
- Lighting
- Direct late-day sunlight casting sharp horizontal shadows from sunshades across glazing panels and spandrels.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, technical, and precise with high-contrast sun and shadow play.
- Environmental context
- Urban streetscape setting adjacent to older masonry context with decorative frieze detailing in the foreground.
- Spatial experience
- The layered facade creates deep reveals and reflections that visually dissolve the structural corner while projecting sunshades articulate horizontal scale.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical window bays intersected by continuous horizontal sunshades and spandrel bands.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial office building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture