Wimbledon Common
A suburban residential rear facade precedent featuring red brick construction, dormer roof extensions, and a raised patio connecting interior living spaces to a landscaped garden.
- What we like about this project
- Subtle glass-roofed lanterns emerge from the lower ground floor extensions, pulling daylight deep into the rooms.
Materials
- red-brick
- clay-tile
- glass
- stone
- timber
Visual identifiers
- red-brick-facade
- raised-patio
- french-doors
- dormer-roof
Style tags
- traditional
- contemporary-vernacular
- residential
Visual tags
- suburban-residential
- brick-architecture
- garden-terrace
- traditional-modern
- Geometry
- Symmetrical red brick rear facade with a multi-level hipped tile roof, dormers, and large ground-floor glazed extensions leading to a raised stone patio.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing red brick masonry with timber-framed windows and glazed French doors.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing brick masonry walls with timber roof framing.
- Spatial scale
- Three-story suburban residence viewed from lawn scale across a wide garden terrace.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting soft shadows from trees and building projections onto the brickwork.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, orderly, and well-lit domestic tranquility.
- Environmental context
- Surrounded by mature trees, privacy fencing, and a lush green lawn in a residential suburban garden setting.
- Spatial experience
- The composition opens from a manicured lawn up central patio stairs to a continuous terrace backed by large windows and French doors.
- Composition rhythm
- Balanced fenestration with centered French doors flanked by symmetrical window bays and vertical roof dormers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary traditional suburban residence
- Program
- Single-family residential home
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- red-brick, clay-tile, glass, stone, timber
- Visual identifiers
- red-brick-facade, raised-patio, french-doors, dormer-roof
- Style tags
- traditional, contemporary-vernacular, residential
- Visual tags
- suburban-residential, brick-architecture, garden-terrace, traditional-modern
- Geometry
- Symmetrical red brick rear facade with a multi-level hipped tile roof, dormers, and large ground-floor glazed extensions leading to a raised stone patio.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing red brick masonry with timber-framed windows and glazed French doors.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing brick masonry walls with timber roof framing.
- Spatial scale
- Three-story suburban residence viewed from lawn scale across a wide garden terrace.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting soft shadows from trees and building projections onto the brickwork.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, orderly, and well-lit domestic tranquility.
- Environmental context
- Surrounded by mature trees, privacy fencing, and a lush green lawn in a residential suburban garden setting.
- Spatial experience
- The composition opens from a manicured lawn up central patio stairs to a continuous terrace backed by large windows and French doors.
- Composition rhythm
- Balanced fenestration with centered French doors flanked by symmetrical window bays and vertical roof dormers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary traditional suburban residence
- Program
- Single-family residential home
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture