9298 Alden Dr. affordable housing
An exterior facade precedent for affordable housing utilizing angled color-accented window reveals to break down a monolithic white stucco grid.
- What we like about this project
- The window reveals angle inward asymmetrically, creating varied shadow play depending on viewing angle.
Materials
- stucco
- glass
- aluminum-frames
Visual identifiers
- punched-windows
- colored-reveals
- stucco-facade
- grid-geometry
Style tags
- contemporary
- rationalist
- playful
Visual tags
- affordable-housing
- residential
- color-accent
- contemporary
- punched-opening
- Geometry
- A rectilinear multi-story volume featuring a grid of punched window openings with asymmetrical angled side reveals.
- Facade system
- Stucco-clad exterior insulation and finish system with recessed window frames.
- Structural guess
- Concrete block or wood frame construction with flat roof slab.
- Spatial scale
- Four-story residential scale, easily readable against human and vehicular proportions.
- Lighting
- Direct daylight casting crisp shadows into the angled window reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, bright, and cheerful daylight highlighting distinct color pockets along the facade.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or low-density street edge with parked cars and young street trees in front of the building.
- Spatial experience
- The building presents a clean urban edge, where the colorful angled window reveals create rhythmic depth when viewed obliquely from the street.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical window grid interrupted by dynamic color variations within the reveals.
- Style reading
- Contemporary colorful rationalist housing
- Program
- Multifamily affordable housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stucco, glass, aluminum-frames
- Visual identifiers
- punched-windows, colored-reveals, stucco-facade, grid-geometry
- Style tags
- contemporary, rationalist, playful
- Visual tags
- affordable-housing, residential, color-accent, contemporary, punched-opening
- Geometry
- A rectilinear multi-story volume featuring a grid of punched window openings with asymmetrical angled side reveals.
- Facade system
- Stucco-clad exterior insulation and finish system with recessed window frames.
- Structural guess
- Concrete block or wood frame construction with flat roof slab.
- Spatial scale
- Four-story residential scale, easily readable against human and vehicular proportions.
- Lighting
- Direct daylight casting crisp shadows into the angled window reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, bright, and cheerful daylight highlighting distinct color pockets along the facade.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or low-density street edge with parked cars and young street trees in front of the building.
- Spatial experience
- The building presents a clean urban edge, where the colorful angled window reveals create rhythmic depth when viewed obliquely from the street.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical window grid interrupted by dynamic color variations within the reveals.
- Style reading
- Contemporary colorful rationalist housing
- Program
- Multifamily affordable housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture