Stationsmeester Heerhugowaard
An exterior architectural precedent for mid-rise residential towers featuring warm terracotta brickwork, regular vertical fenestration, and recessed outdoor living spaces.
- What we like about this project
- The deep reveals on the upper tower levels give the brick skin a surprisingly monolithic, carved appearance.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- metal
Visual identifiers
- brick-towers
- recessed-balconies
- glazed-podium
- vertical-window-grid
Style tags
- contemporary
- rationalist
- contextual
Visual tags
- residential
- mixed-use
- podium-tower
- urban-infill
- brick-facade
- Geometry
- Dual mid-rise residential towers sit atop a continuous multi-story podium, featuring deeply recessed balconies and a regular vertical window grid.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or anchored terracotta-toned brick cladding with punched windows and inset metal-framed balconies.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with masonry or panelized exterior cladding
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story residential scale; roughly ten to twelve stories high with pedestrian-scaled ground floor retail/amenity spaces.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting soft shadows across recessed balconies and vertical facade articulation.
- Atmosphere
- Welcoming, warm, and well-integrated into a leafy suburban-urban interface.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or developing urban site flanked by mature green trees, landscaped verges, and a paved street.
- Spatial experience
- The street-level approach is framed by a permeable glazed ground floor beneath rich, warm brick massing that steps back at upper levels.
- Composition rhythm
- Steady vertical rhythm established by alternating piers and recessed window bays, offset by staggered cantilevered balconies.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban residential architecture with tactile masonry massing
- Program
- Multi-family residential with ground-floor commercial or community use
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, metal
- Visual identifiers
- brick-towers, recessed-balconies, glazed-podium, vertical-window-grid
- Style tags
- contemporary, rationalist, contextual
- Visual tags
- residential, mixed-use, podium-tower, urban-infill, brick-facade
- Geometry
- Dual mid-rise residential towers sit atop a continuous multi-story podium, featuring deeply recessed balconies and a regular vertical window grid.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or anchored terracotta-toned brick cladding with punched windows and inset metal-framed balconies.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with masonry or panelized exterior cladding
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story residential scale; roughly ten to twelve stories high with pedestrian-scaled ground floor retail/amenity spaces.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting soft shadows across recessed balconies and vertical facade articulation.
- Atmosphere
- Welcoming, warm, and well-integrated into a leafy suburban-urban interface.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or developing urban site flanked by mature green trees, landscaped verges, and a paved street.
- Spatial experience
- The street-level approach is framed by a permeable glazed ground floor beneath rich, warm brick massing that steps back at upper levels.
- Composition rhythm
- Steady vertical rhythm established by alternating piers and recessed window bays, offset by staggered cantilevered balconies.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban residential architecture with tactile masonry massing
- Program
- Multi-family residential with ground-floor commercial or community use
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture