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杭州
An aerial exterior precedent showcasing a stepped commercial office block with terracotta cladding and structured vertical glazing bands.
- What we like about this project
- Continuous glowing linear light strip capping the entire perimeter of the upper roofline.
Materials
- terracotta
- glass
- aluminum
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- terracotta-panels
- vertical-windows
- crown-lighting
- stepped-massing
Style tags
- contemporary
- commercial
- rationalist
Visual tags
- commercial
- corporate-headquarters
- urban
- facade-rhythm
- twilight
- Geometry
- Multi-story stepped massing with a strong vertical window rhythm and continuous horizontal crown lighting.
- Facade system
- Unitized curtain wall with terracotta-finished vertical mullions and recessed glazing.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete column-slab construction with curtain wall envelope.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale corporate campus or office block, roughly eight stories high.
- Lighting
- Twilight conditions with warm interior office lighting and integrated linear LED reveals along the parapet.
- Atmosphere
- Professional and crisp, enhanced by warm interior glow against twilight skies.
- Environmental context
- Urban office park or commercial district street with mature tree planting along the roadway.
- Spatial experience
- The building forms an imposing corporate perimeter with a transparent ground floor opening out to landscaped street edges.
- Composition rhythm
- Dense vertical window piers alternating with terracotta-clad spandrel columns across multiple stories.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate architecture
- Program
- Corporate headquarters and office complex
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- terracotta, glass, aluminum, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- terracotta-panels, vertical-windows, crown-lighting, stepped-massing
- Style tags
- contemporary, commercial, rationalist
- Visual tags
- commercial, corporate-headquarters, urban, facade-rhythm, twilight
- Geometry
- Multi-story stepped massing with a strong vertical window rhythm and continuous horizontal crown lighting.
- Facade system
- Unitized curtain wall with terracotta-finished vertical mullions and recessed glazing.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete column-slab construction with curtain wall envelope.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale corporate campus or office block, roughly eight stories high.
- Lighting
- Twilight conditions with warm interior office lighting and integrated linear LED reveals along the parapet.
- Atmosphere
- Professional and crisp, enhanced by warm interior glow against twilight skies.
- Environmental context
- Urban office park or commercial district street with mature tree planting along the roadway.
- Spatial experience
- The building forms an imposing corporate perimeter with a transparent ground floor opening out to landscaped street edges.
- Composition rhythm
- Dense vertical window piers alternating with terracotta-clad spandrel columns across multiple stories.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate architecture
- Program
- Corporate headquarters and office complex
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture