How to maximise facades in wall-to-wall architecture | News | Architonic
Whether due to urban regulations, typologies, land use or even informality in urban development, building between adjacent structures limits the number of faces of a new architectural volume. This reduction typically results in a building with only two facades at the front and back and also presents a spatial challenge in terms of achieving adequate illumination and ventilation along an apparent single horizontal axis. The compression caused by surrounding structures, however, can also lead to the exploration of new relationships between elements such as full and empty spaces, light and shadow as well as permeable and impermeable surfaces. In addition, the roof of the volume can be understood as a third face or facade to serve as another axis, a vertical current. These four projects illuminate only a few of the possibilities for maximising facades in the context of wall-to-wall architecture. Being the community heart of an overpopulated center in the middle of Cairo, the…
Whether due to urban regulations, typologies, land use or even informality in urban development, building between adjacent structures limits the number of faces of a new architectural volume. This reduction typically results in a building with only two facades at the front and back and also presents a spatial challenge in terms of achieving adequate illumination and ventilation along an apparent single horizontal axis.
The compression caused by surrounding structures, however, can also lead to the exploration of new relationships between elements such as full and empty spaces, light and shadow as well as permeable and impermeable surfaces. In addition, the roof of the volume can be understood as a third face or facade to serve as another axis, a vertical current. These four projects illuminate only a few of the possibilities for maximising facades in the context of wall-to-wall architecture. Being the community heart of an overpopulated center in the middle of Cairo, the…
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