Cougar Creek Renovation
An exterior aerial precedent showing low-rise multi-family residential retrofitting with solar arrays and integrated courtyard landscape amenities.
- What we like about this project
- Extensive roof-mounted solar photovoltaic array spanning multiple low-rise residential blocks.
Materials
- siding
- brick
- asphalt-shingle
- wood
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- multi-family-housing
- central-playground
- solar-panels
- concrete-walkway
Style tags
- contemporary
- suburban
- functional
Visual tags
- residential-complex
- courtyard
- renovation
- sustainable-design
- suburban
- Geometry
- Low-rise multi-family residential blocks organized around a central organic-form playground and meandering concrete walkways.
- Facade system
- Horizontal lap siding with brick veneer base and punched window openings.
- Structural guess
- Wood-frame construction over masonry or concrete foundations.
- Spatial scale
- Three-story residential scale framing a pedestrian courtyard.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sunlight casting short, crisp shadows across buildings and ground plane.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, orderly, and community-focused residential atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Suburban setting surrounded by mature evergreen trees and green lawn areas.
- Spatial experience
- Open courtyard layout promotes community gathering, framed by residential buildings and dense perimeter evergreens.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating window groupings and symmetrical building blocks balanced by organic curved pathways.
- Style reading
- Contemporary suburban residential renovation
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment complex
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- siding, brick, asphalt-shingle, wood, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- multi-family-housing, central-playground, solar-panels, concrete-walkway
- Style tags
- contemporary, suburban, functional
- Visual tags
- residential-complex, courtyard, renovation, sustainable-design, suburban
- Geometry
- Low-rise multi-family residential blocks organized around a central organic-form playground and meandering concrete walkways.
- Facade system
- Horizontal lap siding with brick veneer base and punched window openings.
- Structural guess
- Wood-frame construction over masonry or concrete foundations.
- Spatial scale
- Three-story residential scale framing a pedestrian courtyard.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sunlight casting short, crisp shadows across buildings and ground plane.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, orderly, and community-focused residential atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Suburban setting surrounded by mature evergreen trees and green lawn areas.
- Spatial experience
- Open courtyard layout promotes community gathering, framed by residential buildings and dense perimeter evergreens.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating window groupings and symmetrical building blocks balanced by organic curved pathways.
- Style reading
- Contemporary suburban residential renovation
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment complex
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture