Contemporary Rawshan: Wooden Lattice Made of Metal

A contemporary building translates traditional Rawshan bay windows into a modern architectural language: the facade still features a series of projecting square boxes, 800mm deep, but the material is anodized dark brown aluminum, laser-cut with holes of varying density—small and dense on sun-facing sides, large and sparse on shaded sides. The inner side of the boxes features fully openable floor-to-ceiling glass doors. Due to the varying hole density, the facade exhibits different levels of transparency from different orientations. The main wall is made of plain, undecorated off-white stone. In the evening, the lights inside the boxes glow through the holes. Avoid: metal made to imitate wood grain, uniform hole density, boxes designed as purely decorative and inaccessible, main body using glass curtain walls.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一棟當代建築把傳統凸窗轉譯成現代語彙:立面上仍然是一系列外挑的方形盒體,深度 800mm,但材料換成陽極處理的深棕色鋁,以雷射切割出密度漸變的孔洞——朝向陽光的面孔洞小而密,背光面則大而疏。盒體的內側是可完全開啟的落地玻璃門。因為孔洞密度不同,立面在不同方位呈現不同的通透度。主體牆面是米白色的石材,平整無裝飾。傍晚,盒體內的燈光從孔洞透出。避免:金屬做成仿木紋、孔洞密度均勻、盒體做成純裝飾不可進入、主體使用玻璃帷幕。