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An aerial site precedent showing a multi-unit housing typology composed of linear parallel blocks with stepped roof gardens and integrated courtyard parking.
- What we like about this project
- Each consecutive housing bar shifts slightly to generate private rooftop terraces for the unit below.
Materials
- stucco
- glass
- metal-railing
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- parallel-blocks
- stepped-terraces
- white-stucco
- roof-gardens
Style tags
- contemporary
- minimalist
- mediterranean-modern
Visual tags
- housing-complex
- aerial-view
- terraced
- suburban-density
- white-volume
- Geometry
- Multiple parallel linear white housing blocks step down a sloping site toward a corner street intersection.
- Facade system
- Stucco-finished masonry walls with deep horizontal window reveals and inset balconies.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame and slab construction
- Spatial scale
- Multi-unit residential complex viewed from an elevated aerial vantage point.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting angled shadows across white volumes and surrounding streets.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, orderly, and uniform desert residential quarter.
- Environmental context
- Suburban desert context with paved roads, parked cars, and scattered palm trees.
- Spatial experience
- The dense arrangement creates repetitive outdoor courtyards and terraces protected by high perimeter walls.
- Composition rhythm
- Repetitive linear massing stepped diagonally to follow the site topography.
- Style reading
- Contemporary white geometric housing block
- Program
- Multi-family residential housing
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stucco, glass, metal-railing, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- parallel-blocks, stepped-terraces, white-stucco, roof-gardens
- Style tags
- contemporary, minimalist, mediterranean-modern
- Visual tags
- housing-complex, aerial-view, terraced, suburban-density, white-volume
- Geometry
- Multiple parallel linear white housing blocks step down a sloping site toward a corner street intersection.
- Facade system
- Stucco-finished masonry walls with deep horizontal window reveals and inset balconies.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame and slab construction
- Spatial scale
- Multi-unit residential complex viewed from an elevated aerial vantage point.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting angled shadows across white volumes and surrounding streets.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, orderly, and uniform desert residential quarter.
- Environmental context
- Suburban desert context with paved roads, parked cars, and scattered palm trees.
- Spatial experience
- The dense arrangement creates repetitive outdoor courtyards and terraces protected by high perimeter walls.
- Composition rhythm
- Repetitive linear massing stepped diagonally to follow the site topography.
- Style reading
- Contemporary white geometric housing block
- Program
- Multi-family residential housing
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture