Citizens House
An aerial site precedent demonstrating how a contemporary light-colored multi-family infill housing project sits within a traditional suburban pitched-roof context.
- What we like about this project
- Solar panels neatly integrated into the flat upper roof terraces while surrounded by traditional sloped roofs.
Materials
- render
- glass
- tile
- brick
Visual identifiers
- aerial-view
- light-facade
- infill-housing
- stepped-massing
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- residential-infill
Visual tags
- urban-infill
- residential
- contextual
- aerial
- multi-family
- Geometry
- An articulated multi-volume block inserted into a suburban infill context, featuring stepped cubic profiles and recessed balconies.
- Facade system
- Light rendered finish with stacked balconies and punched window openings.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry or reinforced concrete frame with timber/steel roof structures.
- Spatial scale
- Broad neighborhood scale from an elevated aerial viewpoint.
- Lighting
- Bright daytime overhead lighting casting soft, clear shadows across roofs and facades.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, clear daylight highlighting suburban density and spatial integration.
- Environmental context
- Suburban residential fabric with low-rise housing, pitched tiled roofs, and mature trees under a wide horizon.
- Spatial experience
- The view looks across a dense neighborhood fabric, highlighting how the new light-colored residential volume relates to lower-scale suburban contexts.
- Composition rhythm
- Scattered neighborhood roofscape surrounding a central light-toned building focal point.
- Style reading
- Contextual contemporary multi-family residential
- Program
- Multi-family residential housing
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- render, glass, tile, brick
- Visual identifiers
- aerial-view, light-facade, infill-housing, stepped-massing
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, residential-infill
- Visual tags
- urban-infill, residential, contextual, aerial, multi-family
- Geometry
- An articulated multi-volume block inserted into a suburban infill context, featuring stepped cubic profiles and recessed balconies.
- Facade system
- Light rendered finish with stacked balconies and punched window openings.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry or reinforced concrete frame with timber/steel roof structures.
- Spatial scale
- Broad neighborhood scale from an elevated aerial viewpoint.
- Lighting
- Bright daytime overhead lighting casting soft, clear shadows across roofs and facades.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, clear daylight highlighting suburban density and spatial integration.
- Environmental context
- Suburban residential fabric with low-rise housing, pitched tiled roofs, and mature trees under a wide horizon.
- Spatial experience
- The view looks across a dense neighborhood fabric, highlighting how the new light-colored residential volume relates to lower-scale suburban contexts.
- Composition rhythm
- Scattered neighborhood roofscape surrounding a central light-toned building focal point.
- Style reading
- Contextual contemporary multi-family residential
- Program
- Multi-family residential housing
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture