A landscaped communal courtyard flanked by red brick apartment facades
A residential courtyard precedent by HTA Design showcasing how dense mid-rise red brick apartment blocks can be softened by lush central planting and permeable pedestrian pathways.
- What we like about this project
- Bright red-painted steel balconies punctuate the otherwise uniform traditional red brick facade.
Materials
- red-brick
- steel
- glass
- timber
- pavers
Visual identifiers
- red-brick-facade
- courtyard-garden
- curved-brick-path
- balconies
Style tags
- contemporary
- vernacular-hybrid
- residential
Visual tags
- residential
- courtyard
- landscape-integration
- urban-infill
- brick-architecture
- Geometry
- Mid-rise perimeter red brick residential blocks enclose a verdant, irregularly shaped courtyard garden with a curving brick-paved pathway.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing red brick masonry walls with punched multi-pane windows and suspended red-framed balconies.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing brick masonry with concrete floor slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled courtyard path framed by five- to six-story residential elevations.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight casting soft shadows and highlighting the rich texture of the red brickwork.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet, green, and sheltered enclave hidden within a dense urban brick fabric.
- Environmental context
- Urban residential infill setting surrounded by dense multi-story brick architecture.
- Spatial experience
- The transition from the city moves along a lushly planted, sheltered internal courtyard that breaks down the scale of the surrounding multi-story housing blocks.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window alignments on the brick facade contrast with the organic, winding line of the ground-level pathway and fern-heavy planting.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban residential vernacular
- Program
- Multi-family residential courtyard
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- red-brick, steel, glass, timber, pavers
- Visual identifiers
- red-brick-facade, courtyard-garden, curved-brick-path, balconies
- Style tags
- contemporary, vernacular-hybrid, residential
- Visual tags
- residential, courtyard, landscape-integration, urban-infill, brick-architecture
- Geometry
- Mid-rise perimeter red brick residential blocks enclose a verdant, irregularly shaped courtyard garden with a curving brick-paved pathway.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing red brick masonry walls with punched multi-pane windows and suspended red-framed balconies.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing brick masonry with concrete floor slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled courtyard path framed by five- to six-story residential elevations.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight casting soft shadows and highlighting the rich texture of the red brickwork.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet, green, and sheltered enclave hidden within a dense urban brick fabric.
- Environmental context
- Urban residential infill setting surrounded by dense multi-story brick architecture.
- Spatial experience
- The transition from the city moves along a lushly planted, sheltered internal courtyard that breaks down the scale of the surrounding multi-story housing blocks.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window alignments on the brick facade contrast with the organic, winding line of the ground-level pathway and fern-heavy planting.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban residential vernacular
- Program
- Multi-family residential courtyard
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture