9298 Alden Dr. affordable housing
An aerial architectural rendering of affordable housing utilizing bright color-accented window reveals to break up a clean white grid, supported by a central courtyard and accessible roof deck.
- What we like about this project
- The interior sides of the deep window reveals feature contrasting vibrant warm tones that create a dynamic facade pattern from angled views.
Materials
- stucco
- glass
- painted-metal
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- color-accented-reveals
- central-courtyard
- roof-terrace
- pilotis-parking
Style tags
- contemporary
- functionalist
- residential
Visual tags
- affordable-housing
- courtyard-building
- color-accents
- roof-garden
- podium-parking
- Geometry
- U-shaped perimeter block surrounding a central courtyard, elevated on pilotis above ground-level parking with a stepped upper roof terrace.
- Facade system
- Stucco-clad exterior wall with deeply recessed, color-accented punched window openings.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame with podium parking level and upper residential slab construction.
- Spatial scale
- Four-story residential scale, easily readable through repeating window modules and parking clearance.
- Lighting
- Direct daylight casting sharp diagonal shadows across the white facades and parking bays.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, clean, and optimistic daytime rendering highlighting active communal spaces and playful fenestration.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or urban-edge lot surrounded by neighboring buildings, unpaved open space, and sparse street trees.
- Spatial experience
- The building engages the site with an open ground-level parking undercroft, rising to structured housing levels and culminating in an active communal roof garden.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular grid of punched windows animated by shifting bands of red, orange, and yellow paint within the window reveals.
- Style reading
- Contemporary functional residential housing block
- Program
- Multifamily affordable housing with ground parking and roof amenity deck
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stucco, glass, painted-metal, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- color-accented-reveals, central-courtyard, roof-terrace, pilotis-parking
- Style tags
- contemporary, functionalist, residential
- Visual tags
- affordable-housing, courtyard-building, color-accents, roof-garden, podium-parking
- Geometry
- U-shaped perimeter block surrounding a central courtyard, elevated on pilotis above ground-level parking with a stepped upper roof terrace.
- Facade system
- Stucco-clad exterior wall with deeply recessed, color-accented punched window openings.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame with podium parking level and upper residential slab construction.
- Spatial scale
- Four-story residential scale, easily readable through repeating window modules and parking clearance.
- Lighting
- Direct daylight casting sharp diagonal shadows across the white facades and parking bays.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, clean, and optimistic daytime rendering highlighting active communal spaces and playful fenestration.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or urban-edge lot surrounded by neighboring buildings, unpaved open space, and sparse street trees.
- Spatial experience
- The building engages the site with an open ground-level parking undercroft, rising to structured housing levels and culminating in an active communal roof garden.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular grid of punched windows animated by shifting bands of red, orange, and yellow paint within the window reveals.
- Style reading
- Contemporary functional residential housing block
- Program
- Multifamily affordable housing with ground parking and roof amenity deck
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture