A modern rural retreat
Photo · Brotherton Lock. Location Oxfordshire Completion
A modern rural residential courtyard by Richard Parr Associates showcasing perforated brickwork screens and contrasting paved surfaces.
- What we like about this project
- Perforated brick panels shift from opaque solidity to textured transparency across the facade.
Materials
- red-brick
- glass
- dark-metal
- concrete-paver
- corten-steel
Visual identifiers
- hit-and-miss-brickwork
- herringbone-path
- courtyard
- dark-metal-link
Style tags
- contemporary
- vernacular
- textured
Visual tags
- courtyard
- rural-retreat
- brick-facade
- perforated-wall
- residential
- Geometry
- Symmetrical low-slung brick volumes frame a central courtyard approach, joined by a recessed dark metal and glass link.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing red brick masonry featuring alternating solid and perforated bond patterns.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry walls with steel lintels and flat roof construction.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story residential scale, intimate courtyard proportions.
- Lighting
- Overcast daylight with soft diffused illumination casting minimal shadows across the brick surfaces.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet, grounded, and earthy atmosphere created by heavy red brick and natural planting.
- Environmental context
- Open rural or countryside setting with distant landscape visible through the glazed link.
- Spatial experience
- The approach is compressed between high solid-and-void brick facades before opening into the central courtyard.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical framing with alternating solid brick piers and perforated hit-and-miss brick panels.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rural vernacular
- Program
- Rural residential retreat courtyard
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- red-brick, glass, dark-metal, concrete-paver, corten-steel
- Visual identifiers
- hit-and-miss-brickwork, herringbone-path, courtyard, dark-metal-link
- Style tags
- contemporary, vernacular, textured
- Visual tags
- courtyard, rural-retreat, brick-facade, perforated-wall, residential
- Geometry
- Symmetrical low-slung brick volumes frame a central courtyard approach, joined by a recessed dark metal and glass link.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing red brick masonry featuring alternating solid and perforated bond patterns.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry walls with steel lintels and flat roof construction.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story residential scale, intimate courtyard proportions.
- Lighting
- Overcast daylight with soft diffused illumination casting minimal shadows across the brick surfaces.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet, grounded, and earthy atmosphere created by heavy red brick and natural planting.
- Environmental context
- Open rural or countryside setting with distant landscape visible through the glazed link.
- Spatial experience
- The approach is compressed between high solid-and-void brick facades before opening into the central courtyard.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical framing with alternating solid brick piers and perforated hit-and-miss brick panels.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rural vernacular
- Program
- Rural residential retreat courtyard
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture