CLIMATE ADAPTIVE BUILDING

CLIMATE ADAPTIVE ELEMENTS:

WAINWRIGHT
• First use of Column frame construction
BUILDING • Steel frame clad in masonry
• Terracotta ornamentation façade
• 1st two floors- brown sandstone
•Established: 23 May 1968 • Next 7 floors- brick piers
•Height: 44.81 m (10 storey) • Large deep windows
•Architects: Louis Sullivan, • Leaf ornamentation inspired from Notre Dame, Parris
Dankmar Adler • Bull’s eye window that light top storey floor
Architectural style: Chicago School containing water tanks and elevator machinery
• Built with least possible spend to obtain greatest
revenue

Among the first skyscrapers built in the world, the Wainwright

Building by Louis Sullivan and partner Dankmar Adler is regarded as
an influential prototype of a modern office architecture.

Sullivan unified the facades of the Wainwright by treating them as Bull’s eye window
grids of vertical and horizontal members.

Three-part system of composition — the lower floors devoted to

selling merchandise should look different from the offices on the
middle floors, and the top attic floors should be set apart by their
unique interior functions. This is to say that the "form" on the outside
of a tall building should change as the "function" of what goes on
inside a building changes.