801 H St. apartments
An architectural elevation precedent for multi-family housing that combines active ground-level retail, a screened parking podium, and stepped upper-level balconies with integrated landscaping.
- What we like about this project
- Stepped terracing configuration creates private roof gardens across multiple building levels.
Materials
- glass
- stucco
- wood-panel
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- architectural-elevation
- tiered-balconies
- podium-parking
- stepped-massing
Style tags
- contemporary
- architectural-drawing
- rationalist
Visual tags
- elevation
- multi-family
- residential
- housing
- facade-study
- stepped-terraces
- Geometry
- Orthogonal multi-story residential elevations with stepped upper terraces and a transparent retail ground level above a parking podium.
- Facade system
- Combination of punched window openings, recessed balconies with wood-toned lining, and a glazed ground floor storefront.
- Structural guess
- Concrete podium structure with wood-frame or steel-stud upper residential levels.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-family residential scale, spanning seven main levels with labeled elevation datums from ground level to 74'-0" roof.
- Lighting
- Flat architectural line drawing with standard vector linework and minimal grayscale shading.
- Atmosphere
- Clear, technical, and precise architectural presentation.
- Environmental context
- Urban street frontage indicated with schematic street trees and parked vehicle scale figures.
- Spatial experience
- Drawings convey a terraced street wall that steps back to reduce apparent scale and integrate rooftop greenery.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal banding interrupted by vertical window arrays and staggered balcony bays.
- Style reading
- Contemporary multi-family architectural drawing
- Program
- Mixed-use multi-family residential apartments with ground floor retail and parking
- Perspective
- Drawing / Diagram
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, stucco, wood-panel, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- architectural-elevation, tiered-balconies, podium-parking, stepped-massing
- Style tags
- contemporary, architectural-drawing, rationalist
- Visual tags
- elevation, multi-family, residential, housing, facade-study, stepped-terraces
- Geometry
- Orthogonal multi-story residential elevations with stepped upper terraces and a transparent retail ground level above a parking podium.
- Facade system
- Combination of punched window openings, recessed balconies with wood-toned lining, and a glazed ground floor storefront.
- Structural guess
- Concrete podium structure with wood-frame or steel-stud upper residential levels.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-family residential scale, spanning seven main levels with labeled elevation datums from ground level to 74'-0" roof.
- Lighting
- Flat architectural line drawing with standard vector linework and minimal grayscale shading.
- Atmosphere
- Clear, technical, and precise architectural presentation.
- Environmental context
- Urban street frontage indicated with schematic street trees and parked vehicle scale figures.
- Spatial experience
- Drawings convey a terraced street wall that steps back to reduce apparent scale and integrate rooftop greenery.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal banding interrupted by vertical window arrays and staggered balcony bays.
- Style reading
- Contemporary multi-family architectural drawing
- Program
- Mixed-use multi-family residential apartments with ground floor retail and parking
- Perspective
- Drawing / Diagram
- Discipline
- architecture