Residential - Housing & Regeneration
A residential housing precedent by Rock Townsend Architects illustrating contextual brick massing, recessed balconies, and an inviting colonnaded entrance pavilion.
- What we like about this project
- The distinct color shift between the main reddish brick mass and the lighter buff brick entrance pavilion.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- metal-balustrades
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- brick-facade
- recessed-balconies
- colonnaded-portico
- residential-block
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- residential
Visual tags
- housing
- regeneration
- residential-architecture
- brick
- streetscape
- Geometry
- Low-rise residential block featuring a primary rectangular volume in reddish brick paired with a lighter-colored single-story entry pavilion featuring a heavy columned portico.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick masonry with punched openings and inset balcony recesses.
- Structural guess
- Masonry cavity wall or steel frame with concrete floor slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Four-story residential scale paired with a pedestrian-friendly single-story portico entry.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight with soft shadows cast by surrounding trees under a partly cloudy blue sky.
- Atmosphere
- Welcoming, calm, and community-oriented neighborhood day scene.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or urban-edge residential neighborhood context with paved street foreground, rich landscaping, and mature deciduous trees.
- Spatial experience
- Street-level view presenting an approachable, human-scaled civic entry sequence framed by mature trees, pathways, and cyclist traffic.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical window spacing rhythm along the main brick facade, anchored horizontally by the lower entrance pavilion.
- Style reading
- Contemporary British residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, metal-balustrades, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- brick-facade, recessed-balconies, colonnaded-portico, residential-block
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, residential
- Visual tags
- housing, regeneration, residential-architecture, brick, streetscape
- Geometry
- Low-rise residential block featuring a primary rectangular volume in reddish brick paired with a lighter-colored single-story entry pavilion featuring a heavy columned portico.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick masonry with punched openings and inset balcony recesses.
- Structural guess
- Masonry cavity wall or steel frame with concrete floor slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Four-story residential scale paired with a pedestrian-friendly single-story portico entry.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight with soft shadows cast by surrounding trees under a partly cloudy blue sky.
- Atmosphere
- Welcoming, calm, and community-oriented neighborhood day scene.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or urban-edge residential neighborhood context with paved street foreground, rich landscaping, and mature deciduous trees.
- Spatial experience
- Street-level view presenting an approachable, human-scaled civic entry sequence framed by mature trees, pathways, and cyclist traffic.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical window spacing rhythm along the main brick facade, anchored horizontally by the lower entrance pavilion.
- Style reading
- Contemporary British residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture