Rendering of a red brick residential apartment building with textured
An exterior facade precedent utilizing textured red brickwork and rhythmic recessed balconies to articulate a residential multi-family housing block along a pedestrian street.
- What we like about this project
- Intricate corbeled or patterned brickwork textures integrated into the solid wall sections and balcony enclosures.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- timber
Visual identifiers
- red-brick
- textured-brickwork
- recessed-balconies
- street-edge
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- brick
Visual tags
- brick-architecture
- residential
- urban-housing
- facade-rhythm
- streetscape
- Geometry
- Linear block fronting a public street with regular window openings and recessed balcony logs.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or masonry-clad rainscreen wall with inset patterned brick balconies and punched window openings.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame with masonry cladding or reinforced masonry walls.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story residential scale, four to five stories high with human-scaled ground floor retail/entrances.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight from the upper right, casting soft shadows across the brick facade and street.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, welcoming urban residential atmosphere created by tactile masonry and active street life.
- Environmental context
- Urban pedestrianized street with mature trees, green planting beds, and people walking or sitting.
- Spatial experience
- The facade acts as a continuous textured street wall, providing shelter and animation at the pedestrian level.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating window and balcony bays establish a steady vertical rhythm along the long brick facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual brick architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential housing with ground floor active uses
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, timber
- Visual identifiers
- red-brick, textured-brickwork, recessed-balconies, street-edge
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, brick
- Visual tags
- brick-architecture, residential, urban-housing, facade-rhythm, streetscape
- Geometry
- Linear block fronting a public street with regular window openings and recessed balcony logs.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or masonry-clad rainscreen wall with inset patterned brick balconies and punched window openings.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame with masonry cladding or reinforced masonry walls.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story residential scale, four to five stories high with human-scaled ground floor retail/entrances.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight from the upper right, casting soft shadows across the brick facade and street.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, welcoming urban residential atmosphere created by tactile masonry and active street life.
- Environmental context
- Urban pedestrianized street with mature trees, green planting beds, and people walking or sitting.
- Spatial experience
- The facade acts as a continuous textured street wall, providing shelter and animation at the pedestrian level.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating window and balcony bays establish a steady vertical rhythm along the long brick facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual brick architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential housing with ground floor active uses
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture