OSD
An aerial precedent demonstrating massive sloped green roof integration and angular curtain wall design for corporate campus typologies.
- What we like about this project
- The roof plane forms a functional upper-level landscape park with patterned planting beds and walkways.
Materials
- glass
- metal
- planting
- earth
Visual identifiers
- sloped-green-roof
- angular-glazing
- landscape-integration
- trapezoidal-massing
Style tags
- contemporary
- sustainable
- landscape-led
Visual tags
- green-roof
- campus
- sustainable
- landscape-architecture
- aerial
- Geometry
- Low-slung trapezoidal massing featuring a sharply angled, massive sloped green roof that drops to meet expansive glass curtain wall assemblies.
- Facade system
- Angled vertical glass curtain wall with fine metal mullions.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with composite floor plates supporting expansive sloped roof loads.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale corporate or institutional campus building spanning multiple acres with human-scale rooftop pathways.
- Lighting
- Golden hour daylight casting warm horizontal rays and long soft shadows across the landscape and building roof.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, expansive, and deeply integrated with the surrounding natural canopy.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or campus park setting surrounded by dense mature tree cover and manicured lawns.
- Spatial experience
- The building presents a monumental yet landscape-integrated profile, where the extensive accessible green roof transitions seamlessly into the surrounding parkland.
- Composition rhythm
- Diagonal roof lines and linear glazing mullions create a dynamic geometric convergence.
- Style reading
- Contemporary sustainable landscape architecture
- Program
- Corporate headquarters or campus office facility
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, metal, planting, earth
- Visual identifiers
- sloped-green-roof, angular-glazing, landscape-integration, trapezoidal-massing
- Style tags
- contemporary, sustainable, landscape-led
- Visual tags
- green-roof, campus, sustainable, landscape-architecture, aerial
- Geometry
- Low-slung trapezoidal massing featuring a sharply angled, massive sloped green roof that drops to meet expansive glass curtain wall assemblies.
- Facade system
- Angled vertical glass curtain wall with fine metal mullions.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with composite floor plates supporting expansive sloped roof loads.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale corporate or institutional campus building spanning multiple acres with human-scale rooftop pathways.
- Lighting
- Golden hour daylight casting warm horizontal rays and long soft shadows across the landscape and building roof.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, expansive, and deeply integrated with the surrounding natural canopy.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or campus park setting surrounded by dense mature tree cover and manicured lawns.
- Spatial experience
- The building presents a monumental yet landscape-integrated profile, where the extensive accessible green roof transitions seamlessly into the surrounding parkland.
- Composition rhythm
- Diagonal roof lines and linear glazing mullions create a dynamic geometric convergence.
- Style reading
- Contemporary sustainable landscape architecture
- Program
- Corporate headquarters or campus office facility
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture