114 Selman Wellday House
An exterior street-level rendering of an infill brick apartment block by Al-Jawad Pike, notable for its rhythmic punched window arrangement and unique butterfly roofline.
- What we like about this project
- The subtle inverted-gable roofline introduces an unexpected dynamic silhouette against the flat-roofed background towers.
Materials
- red-brick
- masonry
- glass
- metal-framing
Visual identifiers
- red-brick-facade
- inverted-gable-roof
- punched-windows
- urban-infill
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- rationalist
Visual tags
- residential
- infill-housing
- brick-architecture
- contemporary-vernacular
- street-elevation
- Geometry
- Low-rise residential infill block featuring a symmetrical facade with an inverted-gable (butterfly) roof profile and an orthogonal grid of punched windows.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or clad red brick masonry with recessed dark window frames and reveals.
- Structural guess
- Masonry cavity wall or reinforced concrete frame with brick facade.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise infill scale; six stories high, reading comfortably in proportion with the surrounding urban streetscape.
- Lighting
- Soft, overcast natural daylight with diffused shadows and an even illumination across the facade and street context.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, overcast urban morning mood emphasizing material texture and clean geometric profile.
- Environmental context
- Urban intersection with asphalt street, concrete sidewalks, mature street trees, and a taller white modernist housing block in the background.
- Spatial experience
- The building terminates a street view, providing a distinct urban anchor amidst a mix of mature trees and surrounding larger residential blocks.
- Composition rhythm
- A regular grid of punched windows provides vertical and horizontal rhythm, capped by the upward-sweeping butterfly roof parapet.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- red-brick, masonry, glass, metal-framing
- Visual identifiers
- red-brick-facade, inverted-gable-roof, punched-windows, urban-infill
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, rationalist
- Visual tags
- residential, infill-housing, brick-architecture, contemporary-vernacular, street-elevation
- Geometry
- Low-rise residential infill block featuring a symmetrical facade with an inverted-gable (butterfly) roof profile and an orthogonal grid of punched windows.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or clad red brick masonry with recessed dark window frames and reveals.
- Structural guess
- Masonry cavity wall or reinforced concrete frame with brick facade.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise infill scale; six stories high, reading comfortably in proportion with the surrounding urban streetscape.
- Lighting
- Soft, overcast natural daylight with diffused shadows and an even illumination across the facade and street context.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, overcast urban morning mood emphasizing material texture and clean geometric profile.
- Environmental context
- Urban intersection with asphalt street, concrete sidewalks, mature street trees, and a taller white modernist housing block in the background.
- Spatial experience
- The building terminates a street view, providing a distinct urban anchor amidst a mix of mature trees and surrounding larger residential blocks.
- Composition rhythm
- A regular grid of punched windows provides vertical and horizontal rhythm, capped by the upward-sweeping butterfly roof parapet.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture