Architecture
A commercial building facade precedent demonstrating how stacked projecting slab overhangs articulate a fully glazed curtain wall in a tropical setting.
- What we like about this project
- An artistic circular sculpture sits on an elevated podium adjacent to the transparent ground floor entrance.
Materials
- glass
- concrete
- aluminum
- stone
Visual identifiers
- floor-to-ceiling-glass
- cantilevered-slabs
- horizontal-bands
- illuminated-interior
Style tags
- contemporary
- modern
- transparent
Visual tags
- commercial
- dusk-lighting
- transparent
- contemporary
- tropical
- Geometry
- Symmetrical mid-rise block with prominent projecting floor slabs acting as stacked horizontal bands framing full-height glazed curtain walls.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with projecting concrete or composite floor slabs.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame with flat floor slabs extending outward to form shading eyebrows.
- Spatial scale
- Five-story commercial office scale, grounded by a double-height transparent ground floor.
- Lighting
- Dusk sky with warm interior illumination casting a glowing amber light through the glazed envelope.
- Atmosphere
- Warm and glowing against the cool blue twilight sky.
- Environmental context
- Urban tropical setting framed by mature palm trees in the foreground and light traffic streaks on the street.
- Spatial experience
- The illuminated interior shines through the transparent facade, creating an open, inviting public transition from the street edge.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical mullions aligned with strong horizontal slab lines.
- Style reading
- Contemporary transparent corporate architecture
- Program
- Commercial office building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, concrete, aluminum, stone
- Visual identifiers
- floor-to-ceiling-glass, cantilevered-slabs, horizontal-bands, illuminated-interior
- Style tags
- contemporary, modern, transparent
- Visual tags
- commercial, dusk-lighting, transparent, contemporary, tropical
- Geometry
- Symmetrical mid-rise block with prominent projecting floor slabs acting as stacked horizontal bands framing full-height glazed curtain walls.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with projecting concrete or composite floor slabs.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame with flat floor slabs extending outward to form shading eyebrows.
- Spatial scale
- Five-story commercial office scale, grounded by a double-height transparent ground floor.
- Lighting
- Dusk sky with warm interior illumination casting a glowing amber light through the glazed envelope.
- Atmosphere
- Warm and glowing against the cool blue twilight sky.
- Environmental context
- Urban tropical setting framed by mature palm trees in the foreground and light traffic streaks on the street.
- Spatial experience
- The illuminated interior shines through the transparent facade, creating an open, inviting public transition from the street edge.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical mullions aligned with strong horizontal slab lines.
- Style reading
- Contemporary transparent corporate architecture
- Program
- Commercial office building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture