241 Halstead
A multi-family residential building precedent demonstrating how to handle a sloping urban site with a raised terrace, monumental outdoor stair, and integrated ground-level parking.
- What we like about this project
- The prominent exterior stair cuts diagonally into a planted retaining wall leading directly to the upper terrace.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- metal-panel
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- brick-base
- raised-terrace
- external-staircase
- corner-glazing
Style tags
- contemporary
- rationalist
- urban
Visual tags
- multi-family
- urban-infill
- terraced
- residential
- sloping-site
- Geometry
- An orthogonal multi-story residential block set on a sloping site, featuring a raised terrace flanked by a monumental outdoor staircase and parking underneath.
- Facade system
- Combination of brick masonry base, vertical metal or composite wall panels, and punched multi-pane glazing.
- Structural guess
- Concrete podium or steel frame with wood-frame residential upper levels.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise residential scale, approximately four stories above street level.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting clear shadows beneath overhangs and along the recessed window frames.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, bright suburban-urban hybrid daylight setting with clear programmatic legibility.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner with sloping topography, adjacent parked cars, and mature street trees.
- Spatial experience
- The approach links street level to the elevated residential terrace via a wide central stair flanked by planted retaining walls.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window groupings set against solid panel bays and a regular brick pier rhythm.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban multi-family residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, metal-panel, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- brick-base, raised-terrace, external-staircase, corner-glazing
- Style tags
- contemporary, rationalist, urban
- Visual tags
- multi-family, urban-infill, terraced, residential, sloping-site
- Geometry
- An orthogonal multi-story residential block set on a sloping site, featuring a raised terrace flanked by a monumental outdoor staircase and parking underneath.
- Facade system
- Combination of brick masonry base, vertical metal or composite wall panels, and punched multi-pane glazing.
- Structural guess
- Concrete podium or steel frame with wood-frame residential upper levels.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise residential scale, approximately four stories above street level.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting clear shadows beneath overhangs and along the recessed window frames.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, bright suburban-urban hybrid daylight setting with clear programmatic legibility.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner with sloping topography, adjacent parked cars, and mature street trees.
- Spatial experience
- The approach links street level to the elevated residential terrace via a wide central stair flanked by planted retaining walls.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window groupings set against solid panel bays and a regular brick pier rhythm.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban multi-family residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture