Barking Riverside – Parklands
An exterior street view precedent for multi-story residential housing blocks utilizing textured brickwork, deep volumetric stepping, and continuous vertical window rhythms.
- What we like about this project
- Subtle curved geometry of the entire housing block softens the rigid verticality of the brick piers.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- steel
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- brick-facade
- glass-balconies
- stepped-massing
- vertical-windows
Style tags
- contemporary
- brick
- rationalist
Visual tags
- residential
- housing
- urban-block
- brick
- balconies
- contemporary
- Geometry
- Stepped multi-story brick residential volumes curve along a street edge with articulated volumetric projections and set-back terraces.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or clad brick masonry with inset aluminum-framed windows and cantilevered glass balustrade balconies.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with brick facade cladding and shear walls.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-family residential blocks scaling up to six or seven stories along a vehicular street.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting sharp shadows across the brick facade and highlighting glass balustrades.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, orderly, and civic residential environment under clear sunlight.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or developing urban street edge with clear road signage, sidewalk, and low street planting under a clear blue sky.
- Spatial experience
- From the curved street, the buildings present a rhythmic sequence of massive brick facades broken down by projecting balconies and vertical window slots.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical window openings and stacked balcony projections offset by the curving street alignment.
- Style reading
- Contemporary brick residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment blocks
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, steel, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- brick-facade, glass-balconies, stepped-massing, vertical-windows
- Style tags
- contemporary, brick, rationalist
- Visual tags
- residential, housing, urban-block, brick, balconies, contemporary
- Geometry
- Stepped multi-story brick residential volumes curve along a street edge with articulated volumetric projections and set-back terraces.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or clad brick masonry with inset aluminum-framed windows and cantilevered glass balustrade balconies.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with brick facade cladding and shear walls.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-family residential blocks scaling up to six or seven stories along a vehicular street.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting sharp shadows across the brick facade and highlighting glass balustrades.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, orderly, and civic residential environment under clear sunlight.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or developing urban street edge with clear road signage, sidewalk, and low street planting under a clear blue sky.
- Spatial experience
- From the curved street, the buildings present a rhythmic sequence of massive brick facades broken down by projecting balconies and vertical window slots.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical window openings and stacked balcony projections offset by the curving street alignment.
- Style reading
- Contemporary brick residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment blocks
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture