TOCQUEVILLE 13 MILAN
An urban infill facade precedent featuring dark vertical rhythm and a glazed upper terrace level with an overhanging canopy, designed by OBR in Milan.
- What we like about this project
- The upper setback roof canopy cantilevers cleanly over the terrace without visible intermediate supports.
Materials
- dark-metal
- glass
- steel
Visual identifiers
- dark-metal-mullions
- glass-balustrade
- setback-terrace
- reflective-glazing
- roof-canopy
Style tags
- contemporary
- urban
- rationalist
Visual tags
- urban-facade
- commercial
- glazing
- terrace
- reflective
- contemporary
- Geometry
- Multi-story orthogonal volume featuring dark vertical fin mullions on the lower levels transitioning to a fully glazed upper setback with an overhanging roof canopy.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with dark metal mullions and frameless glass railing at the terrace.
- Structural guess
- Steel or reinforced concrete frame with curtain wall envelope
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise urban commercial or mixed-use building scale, approximately six to seven visible stories.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight with strong reflections of neighboring high-rise structures on the dark glazing and metal panels.
- Atmosphere
- Sleek, reflective, and integrated into a dense high-rise urban fabric.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban downtown setting surrounded by contemporary high-rise towers and older infill architecture.
- Spatial experience
- The facade creates a layered urban reflection screen, stepping back at the upper level to open onto a frameless glass-balustraded terrace.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical mullion rhythm on the lower levels opening into wide structural bays at the upper terrace glass line.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial office or mixed-use building with upper terrace
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- dark-metal, glass, steel
- Visual identifiers
- dark-metal-mullions, glass-balustrade, setback-terrace, reflective-glazing, roof-canopy
- Style tags
- contemporary, urban, rationalist
- Visual tags
- urban-facade, commercial, glazing, terrace, reflective, contemporary
- Geometry
- Multi-story orthogonal volume featuring dark vertical fin mullions on the lower levels transitioning to a fully glazed upper setback with an overhanging roof canopy.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with dark metal mullions and frameless glass railing at the terrace.
- Structural guess
- Steel or reinforced concrete frame with curtain wall envelope
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise urban commercial or mixed-use building scale, approximately six to seven visible stories.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight with strong reflections of neighboring high-rise structures on the dark glazing and metal panels.
- Atmosphere
- Sleek, reflective, and integrated into a dense high-rise urban fabric.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban downtown setting surrounded by contemporary high-rise towers and older infill architecture.
- Spatial experience
- The facade creates a layered urban reflection screen, stepping back at the upper level to open onto a frameless glass-balustraded terrace.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical mullion rhythm on the lower levels opening into wide structural bays at the upper terrace glass line.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial office or mixed-use building with upper terrace
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture