Skinny urban infill building by OpenScope Studio with pink stucco and a
A narrow urban infill residential facade by OpenScope Studio featuring playful color-blocking with pink stucco and a dark green projecting volume punctuated by alternating square and circular windows.
- What we like about this project
- The dramatic alternation between standard rectangular glazed balconies and oversized circular picture windows within the green vertical element.
Materials
- stucco
- metal
- glass
- paint
Visual identifiers
- skinny-infill
- pink-stucco
- green-bay-window
- circular-window
- narrow-facade
Style tags
- contemporary
- playful
- graphic
- post-modern-inflected
Visual tags
- urban-infill
- playful
- asymmetric
- residential
- color-blocked
- Geometry
- Extremely narrow vertical infill volume flanked by neutral party walls, featuring an asymmetric composition split vertically between pink stucco and a projecting dark green bay.
- Facade system
- Stucco over frame on the main body with a protruding metal or panel-clad dark green vertical bay.
- Structural guess
- Light gauge steel or wood frame narrow infill construction.
- Spatial scale
- Very narrow five-story residential infill pinch-point slotted tightly between adjacent structures.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffuse twilight or overcast illumination casting minimal shadows, highlighting the graphic color contrast.
- Atmosphere
- Cheerfully graphic and quirky against the neutral backdrop of adjacent urban buildings.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge flanked by plain white party walls, lined with mature street trees and parked cars at human scale.
- Spatial experience
- The towering narrow facade creates a whimsical yet assertive presence along the street edge, punching distinctive vertical rhythms into the urban fabric.
- Composition rhythm
- Asymmetric vertical split with stacked operable balconies on the left and alternating rectangular/circular openings within a protruding green volume on the right.
- Style reading
- Playful contemporary urban infill
- Program
- Multi-family residential or narrow mixed-use infill
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stucco, metal, glass, paint
- Visual identifiers
- skinny-infill, pink-stucco, green-bay-window, circular-window, narrow-facade
- Style tags
- contemporary, playful, graphic, post-modern-inflected
- Visual tags
- urban-infill, playful, asymmetric, residential, color-blocked
- Geometry
- Extremely narrow vertical infill volume flanked by neutral party walls, featuring an asymmetric composition split vertically between pink stucco and a projecting dark green bay.
- Facade system
- Stucco over frame on the main body with a protruding metal or panel-clad dark green vertical bay.
- Structural guess
- Light gauge steel or wood frame narrow infill construction.
- Spatial scale
- Very narrow five-story residential infill pinch-point slotted tightly between adjacent structures.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffuse twilight or overcast illumination casting minimal shadows, highlighting the graphic color contrast.
- Atmosphere
- Cheerfully graphic and quirky against the neutral backdrop of adjacent urban buildings.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge flanked by plain white party walls, lined with mature street trees and parked cars at human scale.
- Spatial experience
- The towering narrow facade creates a whimsical yet assertive presence along the street edge, punching distinctive vertical rhythms into the urban fabric.
- Composition rhythm
- Asymmetric vertical split with stacked operable balconies on the left and alternating rectangular/circular openings within a protruding green volume on the right.
- Style reading
- Playful contemporary urban infill
- Program
- Multi-family residential or narrow mixed-use infill
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture