Building on Piers: 8 Projects Floating Above Water
Exploring reflection, pier buildings reveal powerful relationships between surface and structure.
Exploring reflection, pier buildings reveal powerful relationships between surface and structure.
Raw materials inherently represent nature and growth. Rock gardens emphasize perception, sequence an d connection.
As landmarks within their contexts, places of worship are formed around reflection, contemplation an d gathering. Few works of architecture hold greater weight.
Metal façades radically redefine building envelopes. Exploring enclosure, surface and envelope, each project reinterprets the surrounding context to shape spatial experience.
The parti structures space. A ribbon parti becomes bands, paths and connections to shape circulation , gathering and experience.
The relationship between building envelope and structure remains one of the most important condition s that a designer constructs.
Too often, roofs are the last piece of the puzzle. Typically, architects begin their designs with po werful spatial sequences and material assemblies to define architectural experience. While a roof can be easily overlooked, it is one of the most important elements in shaping our perception of volume, light and boundary. Normally designed within a range…
Diagrid structures are built to frame experience. Today, they are increasingly used across large spa n and high rise buildings.
Architecture frames context. Rooftop pools provide additional amenity space and shift the expected p erspective.