253 Academy
An exterior facade precedent for mid-rise residential architecture utilizing precast concrete panels and dynamic window eyebrows to create depth along an urban street.
- What we like about this project
- Individual window frames feature asymmetric protruding eyebrows that catch downlighting.
Materials
- precast-concrete
- glass
- metal
- stone
Visual identifiers
- precast-panels
- projecting-eyebrows
- gridded-windows
- street-facade
Style tags
- contemporary
- rationalist
- urban-residential
Visual tags
- residential
- night-rendering
- urban-infill
- mid-rise
- facade-articulation
- Geometry
- Orthogonal multi-story residential block featuring a gridded facade with staggered projecting window eyebrows.
- Facade system
- Precast panel rainscreen with punched window openings and integrated shading fins.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame or CMU bearing wall construction.
- Spatial scale
- Five-story mid-rise apartment building at urban neighborhood scale.
- Lighting
- Evening blue hour lighting paired with interior warm window glows and long red car light trails.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet evening mood characterized by glowing interiors and streaking traffic lights.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with mature trees, parked cars, and pedestrian lighting.
- Spatial experience
- The street-level approach presents a grounded, warmly lit entry sheltered below a gridded upper facade.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular grid punctuated by staggered horizontal projecting shades that break vertical alignment.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban residential architecture
- Program
- Multifamily residential apartments
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- precast-concrete, glass, metal, stone
- Visual identifiers
- precast-panels, projecting-eyebrows, gridded-windows, street-facade
- Style tags
- contemporary, rationalist, urban-residential
- Visual tags
- residential, night-rendering, urban-infill, mid-rise, facade-articulation
- Geometry
- Orthogonal multi-story residential block featuring a gridded facade with staggered projecting window eyebrows.
- Facade system
- Precast panel rainscreen with punched window openings and integrated shading fins.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame or CMU bearing wall construction.
- Spatial scale
- Five-story mid-rise apartment building at urban neighborhood scale.
- Lighting
- Evening blue hour lighting paired with interior warm window glows and long red car light trails.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet evening mood characterized by glowing interiors and streaking traffic lights.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with mature trees, parked cars, and pedestrian lighting.
- Spatial experience
- The street-level approach presents a grounded, warmly lit entry sheltered below a gridded upper facade.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular grid punctuated by staggered horizontal projecting shades that break vertical alignment.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban residential architecture
- Program
- Multifamily residential apartments
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture