Housing
Bath, UK
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An exterior precedent for contextual multi-family housing combining traditional brick gable forms with modern recessed balconies and disciplined fenestration.
- What we like about this project
- The rhythm of identical gable roof forms steps back into the landscape, blending suburban vernacular with dense urban housing.
Materials
- red-brick
- standing-seam-metal
- glass
- dark-metal
Visual identifiers
- brick-facade
- pitched-roof
- recessed-balconies
- vertical-windows
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- residential
Visual tags
- housing
- residential
- brick
- pitched-roof
- contextual-design
- Geometry
- Multiple repeating pitched-roof volumes aligned along a landscaped path, featuring vertical window bays and recessed balcony indentations.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick masonry with punched windows and inset metal-railing balconies.
- Structural guess
- Masonry cavity wall construction with timber or steel roof framing.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story residential scale, comfortable human-scaled ground floor access and balconies.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight under a clear blue sky, casting crisp shadows into window reveals and balconies.
- Atmosphere
- Sunny, calm, and grounded residential atmosphere set amidst rich greenery.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or residential infill setting featuring mature greenery, gravel paths, and clear sky overhead.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching through lush green landscaping, the residential blocks present a rhythm of domestic gables and warm masonry surfaces.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic repetition of gable ends and vertical window alignments creating a strong architectural cadence.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- red-brick, standing-seam-metal, glass, dark-metal
- Visual identifiers
- brick-facade, pitched-roof, recessed-balconies, vertical-windows
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, residential
- Visual tags
- housing, residential, brick, pitched-roof, contextual-design
- Geometry
- Multiple repeating pitched-roof volumes aligned along a landscaped path, featuring vertical window bays and recessed balcony indentations.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick masonry with punched windows and inset metal-railing balconies.
- Structural guess
- Masonry cavity wall construction with timber or steel roof framing.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story residential scale, comfortable human-scaled ground floor access and balconies.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight under a clear blue sky, casting crisp shadows into window reveals and balconies.
- Atmosphere
- Sunny, calm, and grounded residential atmosphere set amidst rich greenery.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or residential infill setting featuring mature greenery, gravel paths, and clear sky overhead.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching through lush green landscaping, the residential blocks present a rhythm of domestic gables and warm masonry surfaces.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic repetition of gable ends and vertical window alignments creating a strong architectural cadence.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture