A Townhouse for One Family
A clean street facade precedent for urban townhouse renovations featuring a bold monochrome finish paired with an accent-colored entry door.
- What we like about this project
- The vibrant blue arched entry provides a striking chromatic contrast against the muted terracotta-red facade.
Materials
- stucco
- wood
- glass
- iron
- stone
Visual identifiers
- red-stucco-facade
- blue-entry-door
- raised-stoop
- symmetrical-windows
Style tags
- contemporary
- historic-context
- minimalist-detailing
Visual tags
- townhouse
- urban-infill
- historic-adaptation
- facade-restoration
- residential
- Geometry
- Symmetrical three-bay townhouse facade with a raised stoop leading to a prominent arched blue entry door on the left bay.
- Facade system
- Smooth rendered masonry wall with flush-mounted minimalist window frames.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry party walls with timber floor joists.
- Spatial scale
- Four-story residential scale appropriate for an urban single-family townhouse.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight, casting even illumination across the facade planes with soft shadows under the cornice and windows.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, established urban residential mood with crisp color blocking.
- Environmental context
- Urban row house context set behind a decorative iron fence, flanked by neighboring historic townhouses and mature street trees.
- Spatial experience
- The approach leads up the brownstone-colored stoop into a focused entry portal, framed by dense urban street elements.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical and horizontal grid of punched windows offset by the asymmetrical placement of the entry stoop.
- Style reading
- Contemporary intervention on a historic row house
- Program
- Single-family townhouse
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stucco, wood, glass, iron, stone
- Visual identifiers
- red-stucco-facade, blue-entry-door, raised-stoop, symmetrical-windows
- Style tags
- contemporary, historic-context, minimalist-detailing
- Visual tags
- townhouse, urban-infill, historic-adaptation, facade-restoration, residential
- Geometry
- Symmetrical three-bay townhouse facade with a raised stoop leading to a prominent arched blue entry door on the left bay.
- Facade system
- Smooth rendered masonry wall with flush-mounted minimalist window frames.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry party walls with timber floor joists.
- Spatial scale
- Four-story residential scale appropriate for an urban single-family townhouse.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight, casting even illumination across the facade planes with soft shadows under the cornice and windows.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, established urban residential mood with crisp color blocking.
- Environmental context
- Urban row house context set behind a decorative iron fence, flanked by neighboring historic townhouses and mature street trees.
- Spatial experience
- The approach leads up the brownstone-colored stoop into a focused entry portal, framed by dense urban street elements.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical and horizontal grid of punched windows offset by the asymmetrical placement of the entry stoop.
- Style reading
- Contemporary intervention on a historic row house
- Program
- Single-family townhouse
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture