MVRDV - The Temerty Building
Toronto , Canada · 2022
An exterior facade precedent showing a stepped volume with curved glass corners and vertical mullion rhythms, well-suited for urban commercial or academic infill.
- What we like about this project
- The upper tiers step back to form vegetated roof terraces along the profile.
Materials
- glass
- metal
- stone
- timber
Visual identifiers
- stepped-massing
- rounded-corners
- vertical-mullions
- lit-interior-grid
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- curvilinear
Visual tags
- commercial
- institutional
- terrace
- stepped-facade
- urban-plaza
- Geometry
- Stepped massing with rounded corner volumes and regular vertical fenestration bays.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall with expressed vertical mullions and curved corner glass panels.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete core with suspended curtain wall system.
- Spatial scale
- Large commercial or institutional building scale set against a paved urban square.
- Lighting
- Soft dusk or dawn lighting with interior warmth glowing through the grid of windows.
- Atmosphere
- Welcoming twilight atmosphere with warm interior glow contrasting against cool exterior tones.
- Environmental context
- Urban plaza setting with mature deciduous trees in autumn foliage in the foreground.
- Spatial experience
- A large public plaza leads the eye toward the stepped terraced facade of the mid-rise building.
- Composition rhythm
- Steady vertical rhythm of mullions stepped back symmetrically in progressive tiers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary parametric-informed contextualism
- Program
- Commercial office or academic institutional building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, metal, stone, timber
- Visual identifiers
- stepped-massing, rounded-corners, vertical-mullions, lit-interior-grid
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, curvilinear
- Visual tags
- commercial, institutional, terrace, stepped-facade, urban-plaza
- Geometry
- Stepped massing with rounded corner volumes and regular vertical fenestration bays.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall with expressed vertical mullions and curved corner glass panels.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete core with suspended curtain wall system.
- Spatial scale
- Large commercial or institutional building scale set against a paved urban square.
- Lighting
- Soft dusk or dawn lighting with interior warmth glowing through the grid of windows.
- Atmosphere
- Welcoming twilight atmosphere with warm interior glow contrasting against cool exterior tones.
- Environmental context
- Urban plaza setting with mature deciduous trees in autumn foliage in the foreground.
- Spatial experience
- A large public plaza leads the eye toward the stepped terraced facade of the mid-rise building.
- Composition rhythm
- Steady vertical rhythm of mullions stepped back symmetrically in progressive tiers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary parametric-informed contextualism
- Program
- Commercial office or academic institutional building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture