Splice by Cadence Architects
Cadence Architects have sent us this commercial building they designed in India.
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Description from the designers:
The commercial complex was to sit on a tight corner site measuring 25’x 100’. Typically the commercial complex as a ‘type’ is conceived as a generic glass box or clad with standard materials like ACP, the consequence of such surface articulation results in clichéd products. Keeping identity and experience as our core issues we conceived an envelope that questions this very cliché of an inert glass box. By altering the conventional wall section, i.e. the typical floor, sill and lintel heights and constantly varying them along the length of the building the intention was to alter the horizontal reading of the elevation. The building envelope was also not just conceived as a two- dimensional flat surface but as a three dimensional composition of trapezoidal objects stitched together by a graphic recess that runs across the building. These tectonic strategies not only establish a new identity for the building, but also alter perception and thereby spawn a new visual experience.
Visit the Cadence Architects website – here.
Photography by Claire Arni
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loft on 04 Jul 2011 at 5:24 pm #
is cool – the windows are slicky slick
Graham Roebeck on 04 Jul 2011 at 6:22 pm #
…striking, dynamic. A game changer. The contrast with the streetscape…startling.
Dennis on 05 Jul 2011 at 12:19 am #
startlingly bad
F.R.Singhvi on 05 Jul 2011 at 8:47 pm #
Great 3 D effect,makes the narrow building look wider. Interesting!!
descartes on 07 Jul 2011 at 12:28 pm #
How can this be startlingly bad Dennis? Perhaps I need to brush up on my architecture to understand why you think this isn’t very well done?
loft on 08 Jul 2011 at 12:51 am #
From the pedestrian point of view.
This building seems to put up a wall.
Turning her back to the street.
For better or worse it is notable.
Everyone has been in the big city with a building that is nothing but a wall for an entire city block.
Is that good?
descartes on 13 Jul 2011 at 7:04 am #
I agree it is very wall like, perhaps the contemporary translation of a bas relief? i like your description, I do think this is like you said a wall, for Better or worse.