Low-angle view of a high-rise office tower with sweeping dynamic
A high-rise exterior facade precedent featuring sweeping, stacked horizontal floor plates that produce a fluid, dynamic architectural rhythm.
- What we like about this project
- Each consecutive floor band shifts its curve independently, generating an undulating organic silhouette from a rigid structural grid.
Materials
- glass
- composite-metal-panels
- aluminum
Visual identifiers
- ribbon-balconies
- curved-floor-plates
- stacked-slabs
- high-rise-facade
Style tags
- contemporary
- parametric
- curvilinear
Visual tags
- parametric
- dynamic
- commercial-tower
- fluid-forms
- horizontal-bands
- Geometry
- Multi-story vertical volume featuring stacked, shifting floor plates that create undulating horizontal shadow lines and dynamic corners.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall framed by projecting cantilevered composite floor edge panels.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete core with cantilevered slab edges supporting peripheral floor plates.
- Spatial scale
- Large commercial high-rise tower scale, spanning many vertical stories.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight from the side casting sharp shadows beneath each projecting horizontal slab.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, dynamic, and modern with strong linear contrast against the open sky.
- Environmental context
- Clear blue sky background, viewed from street level looking steeply upward.
- Spatial experience
- The upward viewing angle emphasizes the sweeping rhythm of stacked bands against the sky, creating a sense of fluid rotation and kinetic energy.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating stacked horizontal bands with slight phase shifts forming a wave-like cadence across the facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary parametric curvilinear architecture
- Program
- Commercial office or mixed-use high-rise tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, composite-metal-panels, aluminum
- Visual identifiers
- ribbon-balconies, curved-floor-plates, stacked-slabs, high-rise-facade
- Style tags
- contemporary, parametric, curvilinear
- Visual tags
- parametric, dynamic, commercial-tower, fluid-forms, horizontal-bands
- Geometry
- Multi-story vertical volume featuring stacked, shifting floor plates that create undulating horizontal shadow lines and dynamic corners.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall framed by projecting cantilevered composite floor edge panels.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete core with cantilevered slab edges supporting peripheral floor plates.
- Spatial scale
- Large commercial high-rise tower scale, spanning many vertical stories.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight from the side casting sharp shadows beneath each projecting horizontal slab.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, dynamic, and modern with strong linear contrast against the open sky.
- Environmental context
- Clear blue sky background, viewed from street level looking steeply upward.
- Spatial experience
- The upward viewing angle emphasizes the sweeping rhythm of stacked bands against the sky, creating a sense of fluid rotation and kinetic energy.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating stacked horizontal bands with slight phase shifts forming a wave-like cadence across the facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary parametric curvilinear architecture
- Program
- Commercial office or mixed-use high-rise tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture