Norfolk Community Diagnostic Centres
An exterior precedent for healthcare architecture combining warm buff masonry with a transparent, pier-framed entryway by LSI Architects.
- What we like about this project
- The deep set-back of the central glazed entrance contrasts cleanly against the solid plane of the surrounding brick wing.
Materials
- buff-brick
- aluminum
- glass
- concrete-paving
Visual identifiers
- buff-brick
- curtain-wall-glazing
- brick-piers
- recessed-entrance
Style tags
- contemporary
- institutional
- functional
Visual tags
- healthcare
- civic
- contemporary
- brick-facade
- transparent-entry
- Geometry
- Low-slung horizontal volume with a recessed central entrance framed by heavy brick piers and full-height curtain wall glazing.
- Facade system
- Buff brick masonry cavity wall combined with dark aluminum stick-system curtain wall.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with masonry veneer and lateral bracing.
- Spatial scale
- One-to-two story healthcare facility at a human and civic scale.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused daylight under an overcast sky creating even illumination with minimal harsh shadows.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, clean, and accessible institutional aesthetic.
- Environmental context
- Suburban healthcare campus with newly landscaped paving, young trees, and surface parking.
- Spatial experience
- The approach moves across a paved forecourt toward a welcoming, transparent double-height recessed entrance porch.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical brick piers anchor the rhythm of the central glazed entrance bay.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional architecture
- Program
- Community Diagnostic Centre / Healthcare facility
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- buff-brick, aluminum, glass, concrete-paving
- Visual identifiers
- buff-brick, curtain-wall-glazing, brick-piers, recessed-entrance
- Style tags
- contemporary, institutional, functional
- Visual tags
- healthcare, civic, contemporary, brick-facade, transparent-entry
- Geometry
- Low-slung horizontal volume with a recessed central entrance framed by heavy brick piers and full-height curtain wall glazing.
- Facade system
- Buff brick masonry cavity wall combined with dark aluminum stick-system curtain wall.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with masonry veneer and lateral bracing.
- Spatial scale
- One-to-two story healthcare facility at a human and civic scale.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused daylight under an overcast sky creating even illumination with minimal harsh shadows.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, clean, and accessible institutional aesthetic.
- Environmental context
- Suburban healthcare campus with newly landscaped paving, young trees, and surface parking.
- Spatial experience
- The approach moves across a paved forecourt toward a welcoming, transparent double-height recessed entrance porch.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical brick piers anchor the rhythm of the central glazed entrance bay.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional architecture
- Program
- Community Diagnostic Centre / Healthcare facility
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture