Flowing Roof: An Undulating Line

The exterior of a single-story community activity center, where the entire roof is a continuous undulating curve. It rises at the entrance to form a high-ceilinged lobby and lowers on both sides to a more human scale, with the roof edge smoothly changing from high to low. Beneath the roof are large floor-to-ceiling glass panels, and the depth of the eaves also changes with the roof height. The skyline resembles a slow breath. Avoid: making the roof into a multi-segment folded pitched roof, the roof undulations being too dramatic like a roller coaster, structural beams exposed at the eaves, or using a dark and heavy roof edge.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一座單層社區活動中心的外觀,整片屋頂是一條連續起伏的曲線,在入口處升高形成挑高的大廳,在兩側降低貼近人的尺度,屋頂的邊緣從高到低平順地變化;屋頂下是大面落地玻璃,出簷的深度也跟著屋頂高度改變。天際線像是一段緩慢的呼吸。避免:把屋頂做成多段折板的斜屋頂、屋頂起伏過於劇烈而像雲霄飛車、出簷處露出結構樑、使用深色而厚重的屋頂邊緣。