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A high-rise residential facade study by MLA+ demonstrating two-tone contrasting material blocks and a uniform grid of punched windows.
- What we like about this project
- The stark color division down the middle of a single tower separates white and red brick finishes.
Materials
- brick
- concrete
- glass
Visual identifiers
- punched-windows
- brick-facade
- two-tone-massing
- high-rise-tower
Style tags
- contemporary
- rationalist
- urban
Visual tags
- high-rise
- residential
- grid-facade
- brick
- contemporary
- Geometry
- Tall rectilinear tower massing featuring a grid of small, regularly spaced square punched windows across two contrasting colored vertical sections.
- Facade system
- Punched window masonry and panelized facade system.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame and shear walls.
- Spatial scale
- High-rise multi-story tower scale with domestic punched openings.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight striking the upper corner, casting sharp shadows in window reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, structured, and urban with clear material articulation.
- Environmental context
- Isolated against a solid black background cutout, showing grouped high-rise volumetric massing.
- Spatial experience
- The towering monolithic block emphasizes verticality while breaking down scale through a dense, repetitive window grid.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict grid alignment with alternating vertical color fields splitting the main tower volume.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban high-rise housing block
- Program
- Residential high-rise apartments
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, concrete, glass
- Visual identifiers
- punched-windows, brick-facade, two-tone-massing, high-rise-tower
- Style tags
- contemporary, rationalist, urban
- Visual tags
- high-rise, residential, grid-facade, brick, contemporary
- Geometry
- Tall rectilinear tower massing featuring a grid of small, regularly spaced square punched windows across two contrasting colored vertical sections.
- Facade system
- Punched window masonry and panelized facade system.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame and shear walls.
- Spatial scale
- High-rise multi-story tower scale with domestic punched openings.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight striking the upper corner, casting sharp shadows in window reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, structured, and urban with clear material articulation.
- Environmental context
- Isolated against a solid black background cutout, showing grouped high-rise volumetric massing.
- Spatial experience
- The towering monolithic block emphasizes verticality while breaking down scale through a dense, repetitive window grid.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict grid alignment with alternating vertical color fields splitting the main tower volume.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban high-rise housing block
- Program
- Residential high-rise apartments
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture