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A traditional brick residential design precedent by PiP Architecture, notable for its rhythmic ground-floor arcade and integrated garden planters.
- What we like about this project
- The combination of classical arched openings with contemporary slim-profile full-height glazing.
Materials
- red-brick
- glass
- clay-tile
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- brick-arcade
- arched-windows
- hipped-roof
- brick-chimneys
- garden-planters
Style tags
- traditional
- transitional
- brick-masonry
Visual tags
- residential
- traditional
- brick-masonry
- arcade
- landscaped
- Geometry
- Symmetrical two-story residential volume with a prominent hipped roof, brick chimneys, and an expansive ground-floor arcade featuring large rounded arches.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick masonry with inset full-height glazed arched openings.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry walls with timber floor and roof framing.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale with human figures seated at a patio table in the foreground arcade.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting soft shadows across the brick facade and planters.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, inviting, and domestic, accentuated by verdant planting and sunlit brickwork.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or rural setting with mature trees, green lawn, and low brick-walled garden planters.
- Spatial experience
- The deep arcade creates an intermediate transition space between the interior living areas and the landscaped garden foreground.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal layering of lawn, raised planters, and repeating vertical arched bays along the arcade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary traditional masonry architecture
- Program
- Residential home
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- red-brick, glass, clay-tile, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- brick-arcade, arched-windows, hipped-roof, brick-chimneys, garden-planters
- Style tags
- traditional, transitional, brick-masonry
- Visual tags
- residential, traditional, brick-masonry, arcade, landscaped
- Geometry
- Symmetrical two-story residential volume with a prominent hipped roof, brick chimneys, and an expansive ground-floor arcade featuring large rounded arches.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick masonry with inset full-height glazed arched openings.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry walls with timber floor and roof framing.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale with human figures seated at a patio table in the foreground arcade.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting soft shadows across the brick facade and planters.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, inviting, and domestic, accentuated by verdant planting and sunlit brickwork.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or rural setting with mature trees, green lawn, and low brick-walled garden planters.
- Spatial experience
- The deep arcade creates an intermediate transition space between the interior living areas and the landscaped garden foreground.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal layering of lawn, raised planters, and repeating vertical arched bays along the arcade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary traditional masonry architecture
- Program
- Residential home
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture