Housing
Bath, UK
An exterior facade precedent showing how repetition, gabled profiles, and dark metal fenestration can articulate modern terraced housing in brick.
- What we like about this project
- Dark vertical solid panels between split window configurations create an asymmetrical rhythm within otherwise symmetrical gables.
Materials
- red-brick
- dark-metal
- glass
- concrete-pavers
Visual identifiers
- red-brick
- pitched-gable
- dark-window-frames
- terraced-housing
Style tags
- contemporary
- vernacular
- residential
Visual tags
- residential
- brick-facade
- gable-roof
- contemporary-vernacular
- street-elevation
- Geometry
- Symmetrical facade arrangement featuring three distinct pitched gables above a continuous two-story brick volume with offset rectangular window assemblies.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick masonry with punched window openings and inset metal panel spandrels.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry cavity walls with timber roof trusses.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled two-story residential terraced housing frontage.
- Lighting
- Direct bright sunlight casting sharp, clean shadows around window reveals and recessed entries against a clear blue sky.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, orderly, and bright residential morning atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Urban residential street edge with paved sidewalk and low-profile foundation planting beds.
- Spatial experience
- The street elevation reads as a rhythmically punctuated wall plane where recessed dark metal panels and deep reveals break the flat brick surface.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical gables align with a three-part structural bay division across the elevation.
- Style reading
- Contemporary vernacular residential
- Program
- Multi-unit residential housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- red-brick, dark-metal, glass, concrete-pavers
- Visual identifiers
- red-brick, pitched-gable, dark-window-frames, terraced-housing
- Style tags
- contemporary, vernacular, residential
- Visual tags
- residential, brick-facade, gable-roof, contemporary-vernacular, street-elevation
- Geometry
- Symmetrical facade arrangement featuring three distinct pitched gables above a continuous two-story brick volume with offset rectangular window assemblies.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick masonry with punched window openings and inset metal panel spandrels.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry cavity walls with timber roof trusses.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled two-story residential terraced housing frontage.
- Lighting
- Direct bright sunlight casting sharp, clean shadows around window reveals and recessed entries against a clear blue sky.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, orderly, and bright residential morning atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Urban residential street edge with paved sidewalk and low-profile foundation planting beds.
- Spatial experience
- The street elevation reads as a rhythmically punctuated wall plane where recessed dark metal panels and deep reveals break the flat brick surface.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical gables align with a three-part structural bay division across the elevation.
- Style reading
- Contemporary vernacular residential
- Program
- Multi-unit residential housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture