Post by account_disabled on Feb 20, 2024 1:47:06 GMT -5
The so-called sawtooth roof is a typology used by industries to make the most of natural light into the interior of the warehouses. Its name comes from its characteristic “toothed” shape, becoming a symbol of industrial architecture and one of the essential elements, along with the chimneys, that appear and define the icons about industry and factories. On many occasions, industrial architectural elements have been transferred to civil buildings. Either its structure or its shapes. In The Jagger, a building erected in Los Angeles , we find one of these industrial characteristics: the saw teeth in a block of flats . The monumentality of the building makes it embrace and stand out on the boulevard where it is located. The building embraces Paul Vu - Here and Now Agency (HANA) A building that “embraces” the environment The Jagger is located on a busy street west of Los Angeles.
The project was designed by the local architecture studio Hopson Rodstrom Design (H/DR) and, among its elements, the black color of its facades, a sawtooth roof and an interior Chinese Student Phone Number List patio stand out. Jagger's name comes precisely from the enormous sawtooth cover that crowns it. The windows are distributed along the façade through a staggered pattern, displaced and repeated in the intermediate levels of the building. Paul Vu Windows - Here and Now Agency (HANA) The project was promoted by the local government Transit Oriented Communities program. For this reason, the design of the structure is conceived to “embrace” the urban space through a large building, in an area where low structures stand out. According to the architectural team: “ West Los Angeles has long been a sleepy, low-rise commercial corridor, but has seen significant growth in the last half decade.
In fact, The Jagger has encouraged a dozen projects to emerge on that stretch of the boulevard. All rooms in the apartments have a large amount of natural light thanks to the arrangement of the windows and the interior patio. Paul Vu Apartments - Here and Now Agency (HANA) Black on black The building has seven floors. Its façade is completely black except for the ground floor, like a plinth, which has a concrete covering painted green and interspersed with steel doors. All of this gives access both to the interior of the building and to the commercial premises and restaurants. Likewise, this ground floor is set back from the rest of the building's façade. The central space of the façade is conceived as a huge screen made of perforated metal panels and serves to protect the access stairs to the apartments. Paul Vu Screen - Here and Now Agency (HANA) For its part, on the sides of the main face of the building it has a mass covered in black painted plaster with numerous large vertical windows.
The project was designed by the local architecture studio Hopson Rodstrom Design (H/DR) and, among its elements, the black color of its facades, a sawtooth roof and an interior Chinese Student Phone Number List patio stand out. Jagger's name comes precisely from the enormous sawtooth cover that crowns it. The windows are distributed along the façade through a staggered pattern, displaced and repeated in the intermediate levels of the building. Paul Vu Windows - Here and Now Agency (HANA) The project was promoted by the local government Transit Oriented Communities program. For this reason, the design of the structure is conceived to “embrace” the urban space through a large building, in an area where low structures stand out. According to the architectural team: “ West Los Angeles has long been a sleepy, low-rise commercial corridor, but has seen significant growth in the last half decade.
In fact, The Jagger has encouraged a dozen projects to emerge on that stretch of the boulevard. All rooms in the apartments have a large amount of natural light thanks to the arrangement of the windows and the interior patio. Paul Vu Apartments - Here and Now Agency (HANA) Black on black The building has seven floors. Its façade is completely black except for the ground floor, like a plinth, which has a concrete covering painted green and interspersed with steel doors. All of this gives access both to the interior of the building and to the commercial premises and restaurants. Likewise, this ground floor is set back from the rest of the building's façade. The central space of the façade is conceived as a huge screen made of perforated metal panels and serves to protect the access stairs to the apartments. Paul Vu Screen - Here and Now Agency (HANA) For its part, on the sides of the main face of the building it has a mass covered in black painted plaster with numerous large vertical windows.