Housing
An exterior precedent for a community residential entrance that uses an oversized white structural frame and deep porch to anchor a vibrant red building volume.
- What we like about this project
- The white canopy extends far beyond the main red building volume, creating a massive skeletal porch.
Materials
- painted-steel
- metal-siding
- concrete
- glass
Visual identifiers
- red-siding
- white-pergola
- pitched-roof
- entry-canopy
Style tags
- contemporary
- vernacular-modern
- accessible
Visual tags
- community-housing
- canopy
- residential-architecture
- asymmetric-roof
- porch
- Geometry
- Asymmetric pitched roof and freestanding white steel frame extend forward to create a covered entry zone over the parking edge.
- Facade system
- Vertical metal or wood board siding with punched rectangular windows.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame canopy supporting an open timber or steel roof structure attached to a wood-framed main building.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story community building fronted by a large human-scaled canopy and walkway.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting crisp shadows beneath the white structural frame and overhang.
- Atmosphere
- Welcoming, bright, and cheerful institutional-residential setting.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or campus-style parking lot edge with neighboring multi-family residential structures.
- Spatial experience
- The deep white porch frame mediates between the open asphalt parking court and the bold red mass of the housing entrance.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical white structural posts establish a strong colonnade rhythm contrasting with the asymmetrical roof slant.
- Style reading
- Contemporary vernacular-inspired community housing
- Program
- Senior housing community entry building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- painted-steel, metal-siding, concrete, glass
- Visual identifiers
- red-siding, white-pergola, pitched-roof, entry-canopy
- Style tags
- contemporary, vernacular-modern, accessible
- Visual tags
- community-housing, canopy, residential-architecture, asymmetric-roof, porch
- Geometry
- Asymmetric pitched roof and freestanding white steel frame extend forward to create a covered entry zone over the parking edge.
- Facade system
- Vertical metal or wood board siding with punched rectangular windows.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame canopy supporting an open timber or steel roof structure attached to a wood-framed main building.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story community building fronted by a large human-scaled canopy and walkway.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting crisp shadows beneath the white structural frame and overhang.
- Atmosphere
- Welcoming, bright, and cheerful institutional-residential setting.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or campus-style parking lot edge with neighboring multi-family residential structures.
- Spatial experience
- The deep white porch frame mediates between the open asphalt parking court and the bold red mass of the housing entrance.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical white structural posts establish a strong colonnade rhythm contrasting with the asymmetrical roof slant.
- Style reading
- Contemporary vernacular-inspired community housing
- Program
- Senior housing community entry building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture