7上海市半淞园街道保障房社区
上海
An exterior precedent for multi-block housing complexes using stepped floor slabs, recessed window grids, and elevated bridge connections to structure large residential volume.
- What we like about this project
- Elevated skybridges feature built-in rooftop terrace planters.
Materials
- concrete
- glass
- timber-fins
- metal
Visual identifiers
- horizontal-slabs
- skybridges
- grid-windows
- recessed-facade
Style tags
- contemporary
- rationalist
- institutional
Visual tags
- residential-complex
- urban-housing
- balconies
- grid-system
- bridge-connection
- Geometry
- Symmetrical arrangement of two distinct blocks bridged mid-height, featuring projecting horizontal floor plates on the left volume and deeply recessed grid windows.
- Facade system
- Unitized window wall with integrated vertical timber-look fins and projecting concrete slab eyebrows.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with flat floor slabs and shear walls.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale residential or institutional block, roughly seven to eight stories high.
- Lighting
- Bright ambient daylight casting soft shadows across the deep window reveals and floor overhangs.
- Atmosphere
- Ordered, calm, and civic-oriented housing architecture softened by pocket greenery and human activity.
- Environmental context
- Urban context with foreground park strip, mature street trees, and human figures providing scale.
- Spatial experience
- The composition creates a welcoming urban gateway, framing views through elevated pedestrian bridges and landscaped courtyards between blocks.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical window mullions combined with strong horizontal slab edges create a rigorous, unified grid.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional residential
- Program
- Subsidized housing / community residential complex
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- concrete, glass, timber-fins, metal
- Visual identifiers
- horizontal-slabs, skybridges, grid-windows, recessed-facade
- Style tags
- contemporary, rationalist, institutional
- Visual tags
- residential-complex, urban-housing, balconies, grid-system, bridge-connection
- Geometry
- Symmetrical arrangement of two distinct blocks bridged mid-height, featuring projecting horizontal floor plates on the left volume and deeply recessed grid windows.
- Facade system
- Unitized window wall with integrated vertical timber-look fins and projecting concrete slab eyebrows.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with flat floor slabs and shear walls.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale residential or institutional block, roughly seven to eight stories high.
- Lighting
- Bright ambient daylight casting soft shadows across the deep window reveals and floor overhangs.
- Atmosphere
- Ordered, calm, and civic-oriented housing architecture softened by pocket greenery and human activity.
- Environmental context
- Urban context with foreground park strip, mature street trees, and human figures providing scale.
- Spatial experience
- The composition creates a welcoming urban gateway, framing views through elevated pedestrian bridges and landscaped courtyards between blocks.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical window mullions combined with strong horizontal slab edges create a rigorous, unified grid.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional residential
- Program
- Subsidized housing / community residential complex
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture