A New House with an Old Face
A rear residential facade precedent by Office JDY featuring stepped brick volumes, integrated rooftop terraces, and varied window geometries over a garden courtyard.
- What we like about this project
- A circular porthole window paired with an adjacent square window on the top-floor stepped volume.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- timber
- metal
- stone
Visual identifiers
- brick-facade
- stepped-terrace
- round-window
- sliding-glass-doors
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- residential
Visual tags
- residential
- urban-infill
- garden-facade
- terrace
- brickwork
- Geometry
- Stepped massing with a wide ground-floor glazed opening, four regular rectangular windows on the middle floor, and asymmetrical porthole and square openings on the top stepped level.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick masonry veneer with punched and sliding glazed openings.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry with steel framing around large ground-floor openings.
- Spatial scale
- Three-story residential scale; human height is referenced by the lawn chair and timber steps.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight casting soft shadows, illuminating the brick texture and highlighting the sheer curtain caught in the open doorway.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, domestic, and calm, blending textured brickwork with soft garden greenery.
- Environmental context
- Urban rear yard bounded by neighboring white party walls and timber fencing, featuring a small lawn and stone paving.
- Spatial experience
- From the garden, wide timber steps bridge the lawn up to full-height sliding glass doors, creating a continuous indoor-outdoor domestic threshold.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical four-bay middle floor contrasted against an asymmetrical top-floor composition.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual residential architecture
- Program
- Single-family townhouse
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, timber, metal, stone
- Visual identifiers
- brick-facade, stepped-terrace, round-window, sliding-glass-doors
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, residential
- Visual tags
- residential, urban-infill, garden-facade, terrace, brickwork
- Geometry
- Stepped massing with a wide ground-floor glazed opening, four regular rectangular windows on the middle floor, and asymmetrical porthole and square openings on the top stepped level.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick masonry veneer with punched and sliding glazed openings.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry with steel framing around large ground-floor openings.
- Spatial scale
- Three-story residential scale; human height is referenced by the lawn chair and timber steps.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight casting soft shadows, illuminating the brick texture and highlighting the sheer curtain caught in the open doorway.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, domestic, and calm, blending textured brickwork with soft garden greenery.
- Environmental context
- Urban rear yard bounded by neighboring white party walls and timber fencing, featuring a small lawn and stone paving.
- Spatial experience
- From the garden, wide timber steps bridge the lawn up to full-height sliding glass doors, creating a continuous indoor-outdoor domestic threshold.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical four-bay middle floor contrasted against an asymmetrical top-floor composition.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual residential architecture
- Program
- Single-family townhouse
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture