Rice University Visual and Dramatic Arts
An exterior architectural rendering by Johnston Marklee showcasing a university arts building with rhythmic sawtooth roof profiles and textured brick massing.
- What we like about this project
- The sawtooth roof geometry aligns precisely with the vertical articulation of the facade piers below.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- metal
Visual identifiers
- sawtooth-roof
- brick-facade
- vertical-piers
- recessed-colonnade
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- rational
Visual tags
- institutional
- higher-education
- brick-architecture
- sawtooth-profile
- campus-context
- Geometry
- Low-slung horizontal massing articulated by a repeating series of sawtooth gable roofs and vertical brick piers along the facade.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick masonry with vertical relief piers and large glazed punched openings.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete structure supporting profiled metal or timber roof trusses.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story institutional scale, friendly and approachable pedestrian frontage.
- Lighting
- Soft, even daylight casting gentle shadows, highlighting the vertical folds and texture of the brick facade.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, orderly academic environment bathed in diffuse daylight.
- Environmental context
- Suburban campus setting with mature street trees framing the foreground and surrounding roads.
- Spatial experience
- The building sits back from the street behind landscaping, establishing a welcoming civic edge with a recessed ground-floor colonnade.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic repetition of vertical brick folds matching the sawtooth roof profile above.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual institutional architecture
- Program
- University visual and dramatic arts building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, metal
- Visual identifiers
- sawtooth-roof, brick-facade, vertical-piers, recessed-colonnade
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, rational
- Visual tags
- institutional, higher-education, brick-architecture, sawtooth-profile, campus-context
- Geometry
- Low-slung horizontal massing articulated by a repeating series of sawtooth gable roofs and vertical brick piers along the facade.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick masonry with vertical relief piers and large glazed punched openings.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete structure supporting profiled metal or timber roof trusses.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story institutional scale, friendly and approachable pedestrian frontage.
- Lighting
- Soft, even daylight casting gentle shadows, highlighting the vertical folds and texture of the brick facade.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, orderly academic environment bathed in diffuse daylight.
- Environmental context
- Suburban campus setting with mature street trees framing the foreground and surrounding roads.
- Spatial experience
- The building sits back from the street behind landscaping, establishing a welcoming civic edge with a recessed ground-floor colonnade.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic repetition of vertical brick folds matching the sawtooth roof profile above.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual institutional architecture
- Program
- University visual and dramatic arts building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture