Drumgeith Community Campus
An exterior facade precedent for educational and community facilities featuring buff brick volumes linked by a transparent, recessed entrance atrium.
- What we like about this project
- The contrasting white-framed ground-level base visually anchors the heavier buff brick masses above.
Materials
- buff-brick
- glass
- metal-framing
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- buff-brick
- recessed-glazed-link
- entrance-colonnade
- signage-tower
Style tags
- contemporary
- civic
- rationalist
Visual tags
- institutional
- educational
- community-campus
- brick-facade
- contemporary
- Geometry
- Asymmetric composition of stacked, orthogonal brick volumes connected by a recessed, glazed double-height link.
- Facade system
- Buff brick masonry load-bearing or veneer walls with punched windows and curtain wall glazing at the entrance link.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with masonry and glazed curtain wall infill.
- Spatial scale
- Three-story institutional scale with human-scaled entry colonnade and ground-level doors.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight with soft directional sun casting gentle shadows across the facade planes and entrance portico.
- Atmosphere
- Open, welcoming, and orderly civic environment.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or campus setting with a sloping planted foreground and surrounding open landscaping.
- Spatial experience
- Approached from a paved public foreground with stepped seating elements, leading toward a recessed, colonnaded main entrance.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal ground-level continuity interrupted by vertical window alignments and a dominant projecting tower volume.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional civic architecture
- Program
- Educational and community campus
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- buff-brick, glass, metal-framing, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- buff-brick, recessed-glazed-link, entrance-colonnade, signage-tower
- Style tags
- contemporary, civic, rationalist
- Visual tags
- institutional, educational, community-campus, brick-facade, contemporary
- Geometry
- Asymmetric composition of stacked, orthogonal brick volumes connected by a recessed, glazed double-height link.
- Facade system
- Buff brick masonry load-bearing or veneer walls with punched windows and curtain wall glazing at the entrance link.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with masonry and glazed curtain wall infill.
- Spatial scale
- Three-story institutional scale with human-scaled entry colonnade and ground-level doors.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight with soft directional sun casting gentle shadows across the facade planes and entrance portico.
- Atmosphere
- Open, welcoming, and orderly civic environment.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or campus setting with a sloping planted foreground and surrounding open landscaping.
- Spatial experience
- Approached from a paved public foreground with stepped seating elements, leading toward a recessed, colonnaded main entrance.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal ground-level continuity interrupted by vertical window alignments and a dominant projecting tower volume.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional civic architecture
- Program
- Educational and community campus
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture