Exterior dusk view of Lemanarc office building with a pixelated
An exterior facade precedent showing a heavy volumetric form wrapped in a complex, patterned pixelated skin that brilliantly transforms at dusk.
- What we like about this project
- Large ground-level cutouts puncture the heavy massing to reveal soaring, brightly lit glazed lobbies.
Materials
- metal-panels
- glass
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- patterned-facade
- pixelated-skin
- undercut-base
- corner-massing
Style tags
- contemporary
- parametric
- monolithic
Visual tags
- commercial
- dusk-photography
- textured-envelope
- urban-block
- illuminated
- Geometry
- An imposing rectilinear massing with an articulated corner condition and deep volumetric undercuts at the ground level, creating a floating block effect.
- Facade system
- Unitized double-skin or patterned louvered metal curtain wall with alternating solid and glazed panels.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete core-and-slab structure with perimeter columns supporting a unitized curtain wall.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale commercial or institutional multi-story building, dwarfing street trees and nearby low-rise elements.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with cool ambient blue light contrasting against warm yellow interior lighting shining through the patterned facade.
- Atmosphere
- Mysterious and luminous at dusk, contrasting a heavy metallic shell with warm internal life.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with neighboring high-rise buildings faintly visible through smog or mist in the distance.
- Spatial experience
- The building presents an impenetrable, highly textured skin to the urban context while internal illumination creates a warm, intricate pattern of glowing nodes.
- Composition rhythm
- Dense, repeating vertical panel modules creating a staccato rhythm across the entire building envelope.
- Style reading
- Contemporary parametric commercial architecture
- Program
- Corporate headquarters or institutional office complex
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- metal-panels, glass, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- patterned-facade, pixelated-skin, undercut-base, corner-massing
- Style tags
- contemporary, parametric, monolithic
- Visual tags
- commercial, dusk-photography, textured-envelope, urban-block, illuminated
- Geometry
- An imposing rectilinear massing with an articulated corner condition and deep volumetric undercuts at the ground level, creating a floating block effect.
- Facade system
- Unitized double-skin or patterned louvered metal curtain wall with alternating solid and glazed panels.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete core-and-slab structure with perimeter columns supporting a unitized curtain wall.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale commercial or institutional multi-story building, dwarfing street trees and nearby low-rise elements.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with cool ambient blue light contrasting against warm yellow interior lighting shining through the patterned facade.
- Atmosphere
- Mysterious and luminous at dusk, contrasting a heavy metallic shell with warm internal life.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with neighboring high-rise buildings faintly visible through smog or mist in the distance.
- Spatial experience
- The building presents an impenetrable, highly textured skin to the urban context while internal illumination creates a warm, intricate pattern of glowing nodes.
- Composition rhythm
- Dense, repeating vertical panel modules creating a staccato rhythm across the entire building envelope.
- Style reading
- Contemporary parametric commercial architecture
- Program
- Corporate headquarters or institutional office complex
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture