Aerial night rendering by MARS Studio of a historic brick building
北京
An aerial precedent for adaptive reuse of industrial heritage architecture, pairing historic masonry envelopes with an expansive pneumatic ETFE roof canopy.
- What we like about this project
- The organic cell pattern of the roof canopy completely transforms the rigid symmetry of the historic warehouse below.
Materials
- brick
- etfe
- glass
- steel
Visual identifiers
- etfe-canopy
- heritage-brick
- aerial-rendering
- pneumatic-roof
Style tags
- adaptive-reuse
- contemporary
- high-tech
- heritage
Visual tags
- adaptive-reuse
- canopy
- industrial-heritage
- night-rendering
- atrium
- Geometry
- Symmetrical historic brick volume capped centrally by an expansive, freeform pneumatic ETFE canopy bridging existing wings.
- Facade system
- Original punched masonry load-bearing walls paired with a modern inflated ETFE cushion roof structure.
- Structural guess
- Steel space frame supporting pneumatic ETFE cushions spanning over historic masonry walls.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale urban intervention spanning the footprint of a substantial heritage industrial building.
- Lighting
- Evening ambient dusk with warm interior and perimeter street lighting contrasting against the glowing white canopy from within.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, glowing evening atmosphere where soft canopy light counterbalances dark historic masonry.
- Environmental context
- Campus or industrial heritage park setting surrounded by mature trees and lower ancillary brick structures.
- Spatial experience
- The aerial view captures the transition from traditional punched masonry facades into an open, luminous glazed atrium roofscape.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating window bays on the brick facade contrasted with a fluid, cellular grid across the roof cushion.
- Style reading
- Contemporary heritage intervention with biomimetic roof canopy
- Program
- Cultural or commercial exhibition hall
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, etfe, glass, steel
- Visual identifiers
- etfe-canopy, heritage-brick, aerial-rendering, pneumatic-roof
- Style tags
- adaptive-reuse, contemporary, high-tech, heritage
- Visual tags
- adaptive-reuse, canopy, industrial-heritage, night-rendering, atrium
- Geometry
- Symmetrical historic brick volume capped centrally by an expansive, freeform pneumatic ETFE canopy bridging existing wings.
- Facade system
- Original punched masonry load-bearing walls paired with a modern inflated ETFE cushion roof structure.
- Structural guess
- Steel space frame supporting pneumatic ETFE cushions spanning over historic masonry walls.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale urban intervention spanning the footprint of a substantial heritage industrial building.
- Lighting
- Evening ambient dusk with warm interior and perimeter street lighting contrasting against the glowing white canopy from within.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, glowing evening atmosphere where soft canopy light counterbalances dark historic masonry.
- Environmental context
- Campus or industrial heritage park setting surrounded by mature trees and lower ancillary brick structures.
- Spatial experience
- The aerial view captures the transition from traditional punched masonry facades into an open, luminous glazed atrium roofscape.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating window bays on the brick facade contrasted with a fluid, cellular grid across the roof cushion.
- Style reading
- Contemporary heritage intervention with biomimetic roof canopy
- Program
- Cultural or commercial exhibition hall
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture