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An urban residential complex precedent by GF55 Architects, showcasing multi-tower massing and varied masonry facades viewed across a highway at twilight.
- What we like about this project
- The complex color gradient of the brickwork across the distinct connecting massing blocks.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- metal-panels
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- multi-tower
- brick-facade
- highway-foreground
- dusk-lighting
Style tags
- contemporary
- urban
- multi-family
Visual tags
- residential-complex
- high-rise
- urban-context
- dusk-photography
- facade-articulation
- Geometry
- Multiple mid-rise to high-rise massing blocks stepping in height, featuring articulated facade planes and varied panel and brick cladding.
- Facade system
- Combination of precast or panelized cladding systems alongside masonry brick piers.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame construction with non-loadbearing exterior cladding panels.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-building residential development, roughly 8 to 14 stories high.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with warm interior lighting glowing through apartment windows and white light streaks from moving vehicle headlights.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant and urban, balancing the static warmth of residential windows with the kinetic energy of traffic light trails.
- Environmental context
- Urban highway corridor with surrounding medium-to-high-rise residential and commercial fabric.
- Spatial experience
- Viewed across a busy multi-lane highway at dusk, contrasting static architectural mass with dynamic light streaks of traffic.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window alignments and stepped tower heights create a staggered rhythm across the horizon.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban multi-family residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, metal-panels, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- multi-tower, brick-facade, highway-foreground, dusk-lighting
- Style tags
- contemporary, urban, multi-family
- Visual tags
- residential-complex, high-rise, urban-context, dusk-photography, facade-articulation
- Geometry
- Multiple mid-rise to high-rise massing blocks stepping in height, featuring articulated facade planes and varied panel and brick cladding.
- Facade system
- Combination of precast or panelized cladding systems alongside masonry brick piers.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame construction with non-loadbearing exterior cladding panels.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-building residential development, roughly 8 to 14 stories high.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with warm interior lighting glowing through apartment windows and white light streaks from moving vehicle headlights.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant and urban, balancing the static warmth of residential windows with the kinetic energy of traffic light trails.
- Environmental context
- Urban highway corridor with surrounding medium-to-high-rise residential and commercial fabric.
- Spatial experience
- Viewed across a busy multi-lane highway at dusk, contrasting static architectural mass with dynamic light streaks of traffic.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window alignments and stepped tower heights create a staggered rhythm across the horizon.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban multi-family residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture