Dusk view of Payette campus plaza with glazed academic buildings
An exterior evening precedent for higher-education campus architecture using vertical louvers, transparent curtain walls, and active paved plazas.
- What we like about this project
- The corner volume opens up entirely with frameless-looking glass transparency while adjacent facades are heavily shaded by vertical fins.
Materials
- glass
- metal-louvers
- aluminum
- pavers
- brick
Visual identifiers
- vertical-louvers
- curtain-wall
- campus-plaza
- dusk-lighting
Style tags
- contemporary
- institutional
- transparent
Visual tags
- academic
- higher-education
- urban-campus
- twilight
- facade-depth
- Geometry
- Multi-building academic courtyard configuration framing a paved pedestrian plaza with stepped levels.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with exterior vertical metal louvers / sunshades.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with composite floor slabs and curtain wall envelope.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale academic precinct featuring multi-story buildings and a wide public plaza.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with rich warm interior lighting glowing through curtain walls and street-level pole lights.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting and energetic twilight academic atmosphere with glowing interiors.
- Environmental context
- Open campus quad or plaza setting at dusk with students walking across the paved grounds.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the open campus plaza, the large glass-and-louver facade creates a welcoming, illuminated threshold.
- Composition rhythm
- Steady vertical fin spacing across the facade contrasting with large transparent corner glass volumes.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional architecture
- Program
- University academic building and student plaza
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, metal-louvers, aluminum, pavers, brick
- Visual identifiers
- vertical-louvers, curtain-wall, campus-plaza, dusk-lighting
- Style tags
- contemporary, institutional, transparent
- Visual tags
- academic, higher-education, urban-campus, twilight, facade-depth
- Geometry
- Multi-building academic courtyard configuration framing a paved pedestrian plaza with stepped levels.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with exterior vertical metal louvers / sunshades.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with composite floor slabs and curtain wall envelope.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale academic precinct featuring multi-story buildings and a wide public plaza.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with rich warm interior lighting glowing through curtain walls and street-level pole lights.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting and energetic twilight academic atmosphere with glowing interiors.
- Environmental context
- Open campus quad or plaza setting at dusk with students walking across the paved grounds.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the open campus plaza, the large glass-and-louver facade creates a welcoming, illuminated threshold.
- Composition rhythm
- Steady vertical fin spacing across the facade contrasting with large transparent corner glass volumes.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional architecture
- Program
- University academic building and student plaza
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture