Housing
Bath, UK
A residential facade precedent combining buff brickwork with timber-paneled window reveals and a dark slate roof, suitable for contextual suburban housing studies.
- What we like about this project
- Vertical timber boarding beneath each window adds warmth and breaks up the masonry expanse.
Materials
- buff-brick
- slate
- timber
- glass
- metal
Visual identifiers
- buff-brick
- slate-roof
- timber-window-panels
- punched-windows
Style tags
- contemporary
- vernacular
- residential
Visual tags
- residential
- suburban
- brick-façade
- pitched-roof
- contextual
- Geometry
- Symmetrical two-story residential volume with a pitched slate roof and carefully aligned punched window openings.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing buff brick masonry with punched window openings and timber spandrel panels.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry cavity wall construction with timber roof framing.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale, fitting contextually into a suburban neighborhood.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight from the front casting crisp shadows beneath window sills and roof overhangs.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, calm, and orderly suburban residential frontage.
- Environmental context
- Suburban street with a sloping asphalt road and low brick retaining wall along the front boundary.
- Spatial experience
- The facade addresses the street with a solid brick wall softened by low terraced planting and recessed timber reveals.
- Composition rhythm
- Balanced window placement across a two-bay facade layout.
- Style reading
- Contemporary vernacular residential
- Program
- Residential housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- buff-brick, slate, timber, glass, metal
- Visual identifiers
- buff-brick, slate-roof, timber-window-panels, punched-windows
- Style tags
- contemporary, vernacular, residential
- Visual tags
- residential, suburban, brick-façade, pitched-roof, contextual
- Geometry
- Symmetrical two-story residential volume with a pitched slate roof and carefully aligned punched window openings.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing buff brick masonry with punched window openings and timber spandrel panels.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry cavity wall construction with timber roof framing.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale, fitting contextually into a suburban neighborhood.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight from the front casting crisp shadows beneath window sills and roof overhangs.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, calm, and orderly suburban residential frontage.
- Environmental context
- Suburban street with a sloping asphalt road and low brick retaining wall along the front boundary.
- Spatial experience
- The facade addresses the street with a solid brick wall softened by low terraced planting and recessed timber reveals.
- Composition rhythm
- Balanced window placement across a two-bay facade layout.
- Style reading
- Contemporary vernacular residential
- Program
- Residential housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture