Morris Blitz
An exterior residential facade precedent by Archio, combining a pale brick finish with a delicate grid of balconies and regular punched openings.
- What we like about this project
- Narrow vertical slit windows interspersed between standard punched windows break the otherwise uniform grid.
Materials
- pale-brick
- concrete
- glass
- metal
Visual identifiers
- pale-brick
- external-balconies
- punched-windows
- grid-rhythm
Style tags
- contemporary
- rationalist
- residential
Visual tags
- residential
- urban-infill
- facade-study
- balcony-grid
- contemporary-brick
- Geometry
- Multi-story symmetrical and rhythmic facade featuring a central stacked grid of thin-columned balconies flanked by punched windows and vertical slit openings.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing pale brick masonry with punctured windows and precast concrete or steel balcony structures.
- Structural guess
- Masonry bearing wall with concrete floor slabs
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise residential scale, approximately five stories high with human-scaled ground floor entries.
- Lighting
- Bright, even daytime sun casting soft vertical shadows along the balcony columns and window reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, orderly, and calm urban residential frontage.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with neighboring brick context and street trees framing the ground floor.
- Spatial experience
- The street-facing elevation establishes a strong urban edge with recessed entryways and low planted brick planters engaging the sidewalk.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical and horizontal grid aligning balcony supports and window headers across the facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- pale-brick, concrete, glass, metal
- Visual identifiers
- pale-brick, external-balconies, punched-windows, grid-rhythm
- Style tags
- contemporary, rationalist, residential
- Visual tags
- residential, urban-infill, facade-study, balcony-grid, contemporary-brick
- Geometry
- Multi-story symmetrical and rhythmic facade featuring a central stacked grid of thin-columned balconies flanked by punched windows and vertical slit openings.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing pale brick masonry with punctured windows and precast concrete or steel balcony structures.
- Structural guess
- Masonry bearing wall with concrete floor slabs
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise residential scale, approximately five stories high with human-scaled ground floor entries.
- Lighting
- Bright, even daytime sun casting soft vertical shadows along the balcony columns and window reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, orderly, and calm urban residential frontage.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with neighboring brick context and street trees framing the ground floor.
- Spatial experience
- The street-facing elevation establishes a strong urban edge with recessed entryways and low planted brick planters engaging the sidewalk.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical and horizontal grid aligning balcony supports and window headers across the facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture