30 Windsor Place
A contemporary wood-clad rear infill facade precedent inserted between traditional rowhouses, useful for urban residential extension studies.
Materials
- wood
- glass
- aluminum
- steel
Visual identifiers
- vertical-wood-cladding
- narrow-infill
- punched-black-windows
- rear-facade
Style tags
- contemporary
- minimal
- infill
Visual tags
- infill
- townhouse
- facade-study
- residential
- contemporary-renovation
- Geometry
- Narrow three-story vertical wood volume centered between existing lower-sloped or sided adjacent rowhouses, featuring asymmetrical punched window and door openings.
- Facade system
- Vertical tongue-and-groove wood rainscreen with punched black-framed aluminum windows.
- Structural guess
- Wood-frame construction on a raised foundation.
- Spatial scale
- Three-story narrow residential infill scale, about 15-20 feet wide.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight with warm interior light glowing through large windows.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet winter day contrasting warm wood tones against snow and gray neighbors.
- Environmental context
- Snowy urban rear-yard alley context flanked by traditional vinyl-sided rowhouses and wooden fences.
- Spatial experience
- The facade projects slightly into the rear yard space, creating a distinct contemporary focal point terminated by a raised outdoor stair and mechanical units.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical vertical massing with asymmetrical window groupings breaking the rhythm.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban infill residential
- Program
- Residential townhouse rear extension
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- wood, glass, aluminum, steel
- Visual identifiers
- vertical-wood-cladding, narrow-infill, punched-black-windows, rear-facade
- Style tags
- contemporary, minimal, infill
- Visual tags
- infill, townhouse, facade-study, residential, contemporary-renovation
- Geometry
- Narrow three-story vertical wood volume centered between existing lower-sloped or sided adjacent rowhouses, featuring asymmetrical punched window and door openings.
- Facade system
- Vertical tongue-and-groove wood rainscreen with punched black-framed aluminum windows.
- Structural guess
- Wood-frame construction on a raised foundation.
- Spatial scale
- Three-story narrow residential infill scale, about 15-20 feet wide.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight with warm interior light glowing through large windows.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet winter day contrasting warm wood tones against snow and gray neighbors.
- Environmental context
- Snowy urban rear-yard alley context flanked by traditional vinyl-sided rowhouses and wooden fences.
- Spatial experience
- The facade projects slightly into the rear yard space, creating a distinct contemporary focal point terminated by a raised outdoor stair and mechanical units.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical vertical massing with asymmetrical window groupings breaking the rhythm.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban infill residential
- Program
- Residential townhouse rear extension
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture