Exterior view of a multi-story residential building
A multi-family residential precedent demonstrating the integration of heavily planted, staggered cantilevered balconies with textured green masonry.
- What we like about this project
- The heavily textured green brick on the balcony fronts reads almost like organic rock formations layered among the planting.
Materials
- textured-brick
- glass
- metal
- planting
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- staggered-balconies
- textured-masonry
- terrace-planting
- cantilevered-slabs
Style tags
- contemporary
- biophilic
- sustainable
- textured
Visual tags
- biophilic-design
- residential
- landscape-integration
- terraced
- urban-housing
- green-facade
- Geometry
- Stepped volumetric massing featuring deep cantilevered balconies that stagger horizontally to create dynamic shadow lines and integrated planting beds.
- Facade system
- Textured green masonry cladding combined with extensive floor-to-ceiling glass and integrated planter balustrades.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with cantilevered post-tensioned balcony slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise residential scale, approximately five stories high with human-scaled ground paving and planted terraces.
- Lighting
- Late afternoon horizontal sun casting warm highlights on foliage and deep shadows beneath balcony overhangs.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, verdant, and domestic, where dense living architecture meets rich landscape.
- Environmental context
- Set within a lushly planted urban landscape foreground with traditional multi-story urban buildings visible in the left background.
- Spatial experience
- The architecture blurs into the landscape, with cascading terrace greenery merging foreground gardens with upper-level outdoor rooms.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic horizontal cantilevered trays broken by vertical glazing bays and cascading planter modules.
- Style reading
- Contemporary biophilic residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- textured-brick, glass, metal, planting, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- staggered-balconies, textured-masonry, terrace-planting, cantilevered-slabs
- Style tags
- contemporary, biophilic, sustainable, textured
- Visual tags
- biophilic-design, residential, landscape-integration, terraced, urban-housing, green-facade
- Geometry
- Stepped volumetric massing featuring deep cantilevered balconies that stagger horizontally to create dynamic shadow lines and integrated planting beds.
- Facade system
- Textured green masonry cladding combined with extensive floor-to-ceiling glass and integrated planter balustrades.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with cantilevered post-tensioned balcony slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise residential scale, approximately five stories high with human-scaled ground paving and planted terraces.
- Lighting
- Late afternoon horizontal sun casting warm highlights on foliage and deep shadows beneath balcony overhangs.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, verdant, and domestic, where dense living architecture meets rich landscape.
- Environmental context
- Set within a lushly planted urban landscape foreground with traditional multi-story urban buildings visible in the left background.
- Spatial experience
- The architecture blurs into the landscape, with cascading terrace greenery merging foreground gardens with upper-level outdoor rooms.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic horizontal cantilevered trays broken by vertical glazing bays and cascading planter modules.
- Style reading
- Contemporary biophilic residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture