Housing
An urban housing facade precedent that integrates colorful folded sunshades to add articulation and solar control to a gridded elevation.
- What we like about this project
- Brightly colored folding canopies create a dynamic sculptural pattern across an otherwise uniform gridded facade.
Materials
- metal-panel
- glass
- perforated-metal
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- projecting-canopies
- colored-sunshades
- gridded-facade
- ground-floor-glazing
Style tags
- contemporary
- multifamily
- expressive-facade
Visual tags
- housing
- urban-facade
- sun-control
- street-edge
- symmetrical
- Geometry
- Flat symmetrical elevation featuring a central vertical core flanked by gridded window bays and projecting folded sunshades.
- Facade system
- Metal panel rainscreen with punched windows and cantilevered perforated metal sunshades.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame with non-structural exterior wall assemblies.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise urban residential building scale, approximately six stories above ground-level retail or entry.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting crisp shadow patterns beneath the projecting colored canopies.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, cheerful urban daytime aesthetic enlivened by colorful architectural accents.
- Environmental context
- Urban street frontage lined with parked cars, utility poles, and mature street trees against a clear blue sky.
- Spatial experience
- The facade addresses the street with a transparent ground floor surmounted by a rhythmic, textured upper wall that modulates depth and color.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical window modules interrupted horizontally by staggered colored canopy ribbons.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban multifamily housing
- Program
- Multifamily residential housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- metal-panel, glass, perforated-metal, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- projecting-canopies, colored-sunshades, gridded-facade, ground-floor-glazing
- Style tags
- contemporary, multifamily, expressive-facade
- Visual tags
- housing, urban-facade, sun-control, street-edge, symmetrical
- Geometry
- Flat symmetrical elevation featuring a central vertical core flanked by gridded window bays and projecting folded sunshades.
- Facade system
- Metal panel rainscreen with punched windows and cantilevered perforated metal sunshades.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame with non-structural exterior wall assemblies.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise urban residential building scale, approximately six stories above ground-level retail or entry.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting crisp shadow patterns beneath the projecting colored canopies.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, cheerful urban daytime aesthetic enlivened by colorful architectural accents.
- Environmental context
- Urban street frontage lined with parked cars, utility poles, and mature street trees against a clear blue sky.
- Spatial experience
- The facade addresses the street with a transparent ground floor surmounted by a rhythmic, textured upper wall that modulates depth and color.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical window modules interrupted horizontally by staggered colored canopy ribbons.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban multifamily housing
- Program
- Multifamily residential housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture