Greening the city
An exterior facade and landscape precedent by Ackroyd Lowrie demonstrating stepped residential massing with integrated deep balconies framing a shared green courtyard.
- What we like about this project
- Stepped profile creates large open-air roof terraces on upper levels while maintaining a consistent structural grid below.
Materials
- brick
- concrete
- glass
- metal
- timber
Visual identifiers
- stepped-massing
- brick-grid-facade
- deep-balconies
- residential-courtyard
Style tags
- contemporary
- urban-housing
- stepped-mass
Visual tags
- housing
- terraced
- urban-infill
- residential
- balconies
- Geometry
- Stepped terraced massing rising from left to right, featuring a rhythmic grid of concrete slabs and vertical brick piers that form deep balconies.
- Facade system
- Post-and-beam grid with integrated brick cladding and recessed balconies.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with brick and glazing infill
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story residential apartment block viewed at human and neighborhood scale from the courtyard.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight with soft shadows, casting gentle illumination across the facade and landscaped ground plane.
- Atmosphere
- Lively, community-oriented neighborhood atmosphere under daylight.
- Environmental context
- Urban infill setting featuring a shared residential courtyard, playground elements, and adjacent brick structures.
- Spatial experience
- The building frames an active courtyard, creating a transition between public play spaces and private stepped outdoor terraces.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular grid of vertical brick piers offset by horizontal stepped slab setbacks.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building with shared landscape
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, concrete, glass, metal, timber
- Visual identifiers
- stepped-massing, brick-grid-facade, deep-balconies, residential-courtyard
- Style tags
- contemporary, urban-housing, stepped-mass
- Visual tags
- housing, terraced, urban-infill, residential, balconies
- Geometry
- Stepped terraced massing rising from left to right, featuring a rhythmic grid of concrete slabs and vertical brick piers that form deep balconies.
- Facade system
- Post-and-beam grid with integrated brick cladding and recessed balconies.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with brick and glazing infill
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story residential apartment block viewed at human and neighborhood scale from the courtyard.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight with soft shadows, casting gentle illumination across the facade and landscaped ground plane.
- Atmosphere
- Lively, community-oriented neighborhood atmosphere under daylight.
- Environmental context
- Urban infill setting featuring a shared residential courtyard, playground elements, and adjacent brick structures.
- Spatial experience
- The building frames an active courtyard, creating a transition between public play spaces and private stepped outdoor terraces.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular grid of vertical brick piers offset by horizontal stepped slab setbacks.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building with shared landscape
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture