The original note, as written at the time
Some facade edges of note. A facade edge that bends downward. A facade edge where the main wall does not flush with the outer structural system.
Ongoing development
Some facade edges of note. A facade edge that bends downward. A facade edge where the main wall does not flush with the outer structural system.
Both are the same gesture, which is to refuse the tidy corner. In the first, the wall does not stop at a parapet and sit there being finished; it folds over and turns towards the ground, so the top of the building reads as a lid coming down rather than a cut being made. In the second, the enclosure is deliberately offset from the frame, so the structure shows as one thing and the wall as another, and the difference between them becomes the detail.
The reason these are worth collecting is that an edge is where a building admits what it is. A flush edge says the wall and the structure are the same thing, which is usually a convenient fiction. A proud edge says they are two things doing two jobs, and it is honest about the distance between them.
They are also cheap. Neither of these moves requires an expensive material or a clever fixing. They require somebody to have thought about where the two systems meet, instead of letting one negotiator close the gap on site.