The Pleated Building
The Pleated Building by MATA Architects showcases a stepped industrial facade featuring corrugated metal cladding over a masonry base, serving as a strong precedent for multi-story urban infill massing.
- What we like about this project
- The sawtooth roof profile directly mirrors the stepped setbacks of the upper floors.
Materials
- corrugated-metal
- brick
- glass
- steel
Visual identifiers
- corrugated-metal-cladding
- stepped-roofline
- punched-square-windows
- brick-base
Style tags
- contemporary
- industrial
- rationalist
Visual tags
- stepped-massing
- industrial-materials
- urban-facade
- sawtooth-roof
- contemporary
- Geometry
- Stepped massing with sawtooth roof profiles cascading down toward the adjacent street edge, organized in a clear grid of punched square windows.
- Facade system
- Corrugated metal rainscreen panels on the upper tiers above a heavy brick masonry ground floor.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with masonry load-bearing base walls.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story civic or commercial scale, roughly four stories high, with human figures and bicycles establishing immediate scale at the street.
- Lighting
- Bright late-afternoon sun casting low angled shadows across the corrugated metal cladding and street surface.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp and industrial yet rhythmically animated by the play of light on corrugated metal panels.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with moving cyclists and pedestrians, flanked by lower industrial-style context buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The building presents a commanding yet rhythmically articulated civic presence to the street, with varied roof volumes hinting at internal sectional variation.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical repetition of corrugated pleats intersected by a steady grid of square punched window openings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary industrial-vernacular hybrid
- Program
- Commercial or mixed-use workspace
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- corrugated-metal, brick, glass, steel
- Visual identifiers
- corrugated-metal-cladding, stepped-roofline, punched-square-windows, brick-base
- Style tags
- contemporary, industrial, rationalist
- Visual tags
- stepped-massing, industrial-materials, urban-facade, sawtooth-roof, contemporary
- Geometry
- Stepped massing with sawtooth roof profiles cascading down toward the adjacent street edge, organized in a clear grid of punched square windows.
- Facade system
- Corrugated metal rainscreen panels on the upper tiers above a heavy brick masonry ground floor.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with masonry load-bearing base walls.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story civic or commercial scale, roughly four stories high, with human figures and bicycles establishing immediate scale at the street.
- Lighting
- Bright late-afternoon sun casting low angled shadows across the corrugated metal cladding and street surface.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp and industrial yet rhythmically animated by the play of light on corrugated metal panels.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with moving cyclists and pedestrians, flanked by lower industrial-style context buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The building presents a commanding yet rhythmically articulated civic presence to the street, with varied roof volumes hinting at internal sectional variation.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical repetition of corrugated pleats intersected by a steady grid of square punched window openings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary industrial-vernacular hybrid
- Program
- Commercial or mixed-use workspace
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture