Westwick Row
An exterior residential precedent by Archio showing how pitched-roof housing can integrate photovoltaic roofs with shared pocket green spaces.
- What we like about this project
- Large photovoltaic arrays flush-integrated directly into the dark slate roof pitch.
Materials
- slate
- stucco
- timber
- brick
- glass
- steel
Visual identifiers
- slate-roof
- solar-panels
- shared-garden
- dark-render
- red-brick
Style tags
- contemporary
- sustainable
- vernacular-modern
Visual tags
- residential
- community-housing
- sustainable
- public-realm
- pitched-roof
- landscape-integrated
- Geometry
- Pitched-roof residential volumes aligned along a shared garden space, featuring a prominent long black slate roof equipped with integrated solar panels and a continuous upper-level balcony.
- Facade system
- Dark rendered lower volume with dark slate rainscreen and shingle upper levels, paired with traditional red brick on adjacent blocks.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry or timber frame construction with pitched truss roofs.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled residential blocks, approximately two to three stories in height.
- Lighting
- Bright, direct daylight casting soft shadows from trees and building overhangs across the landscape.
- Atmosphere
- Welcoming, sustainable, and communal daylight atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or low-rise infill setting featuring planted rain gardens, picnic tables, and log seating amid native meadows.
- Spatial experience
- A shared neighborhood realm where the domestic edge steps out into naturalized communal greenery and gathering spaces.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating window bays and balcony balustrades balanced by irregular natural landscape forms in the foreground.
- Style reading
- Contemporary sustainable residential vernacular
- Program
- Multi-family residential housing development
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- slate, stucco, timber, brick, glass, steel
- Visual identifiers
- slate-roof, solar-panels, shared-garden, dark-render, red-brick
- Style tags
- contemporary, sustainable, vernacular-modern
- Visual tags
- residential, community-housing, sustainable, public-realm, pitched-roof, landscape-integrated
- Geometry
- Pitched-roof residential volumes aligned along a shared garden space, featuring a prominent long black slate roof equipped with integrated solar panels and a continuous upper-level balcony.
- Facade system
- Dark rendered lower volume with dark slate rainscreen and shingle upper levels, paired with traditional red brick on adjacent blocks.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry or timber frame construction with pitched truss roofs.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled residential blocks, approximately two to three stories in height.
- Lighting
- Bright, direct daylight casting soft shadows from trees and building overhangs across the landscape.
- Atmosphere
- Welcoming, sustainable, and communal daylight atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or low-rise infill setting featuring planted rain gardens, picnic tables, and log seating amid native meadows.
- Spatial experience
- A shared neighborhood realm where the domestic edge steps out into naturalized communal greenery and gathering spaces.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating window bays and balcony balustrades balanced by irregular natural landscape forms in the foreground.
- Style reading
- Contemporary sustainable residential vernacular
- Program
- Multi-family residential housing development
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture