One Burrard Place
Vancouver, BC Canada
Dynamic Shift in Porte-cochère Soffit
This LEED Gold skyscraper, the tallest residential tower on the Vancouver skyline, works as a gateway marker to the downtown core, when crossing northbound over Burrard Bridge. One Burrard Place tower is a part of a mixed-use development, taking up the entire 1200 block of Hornby Street, and is connected to a second residential tower with an amenity podium that covers the building's breezeway front entrance. The porte-cochère soffit is the surface specified as an Ombrae feature facade, the medium for part of the development's public art component.
Client: Reliance Properties
Artist: Gunilla Klingberg
Architect: IBI Group
Size: 2,900 sqft (270 sqm)
Completion Date: 2022
Manufacturing Partner:
Keith Panel Systems
DESIGN OPPORTUNITY
Site-specific Optimizations
Original two dimensional artwork by Swedish artist Gunilla Klingberg was transitioned by Ombrae Studios into a three dimensional Ombrae Sculpture Image™. Throughout the project development process, Ombrae Studios introduced new artistic tonal optimizations for the Ombrae surface, taking into account viewing angles of pedestrians (both on ground and from elevated walkway), complex coverage areas wrapping soffit, fascia, and sloped roof panel orientations, and the dedicated feature lighting at night.
DESIGN OPPORTUNITY
Considered Fade Out
The artwork, consisting of continual concentric rings of iconography, needed a considered treatement on a highly visible soffit area directly in front of the building's main entrance. Rather than cutting off the design sharply based on panel grid, Ombrae Studios designed a selective untreated mask, to slowly transition from full Ombrae to fully untreated area. This ensured the integrity of the original artwork, but further provides a gentle fading quality to the rest of the untreated ACM soffit area.
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