257 Cuckfield Landing Desktop 115cd00d
A suburban residential precedent featuring interlocking brick volumes integrated into a mature landscape by Sandy Rendel Architects.
- What we like about this project
- Perforated brick screen details provide texture and privacy within the upper massing.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- metal
- asphalt
Visual identifiers
- brick-facade
- pitched-rooflines
- suburban-setting
- mature-landscaping
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- residential
Visual tags
- residential
- brick
- suburban
- contextual
- low-rise
- Geometry
- Interlocking low brick volumes with varied pitched and flat rooflines set back behind a suburban street and dense hedging.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick masonry with punched openings and integrated hit-and-miss brickwork screens.
- Structural guess
- Masonry cavity wall construction with timber or steel roof framing.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale, fitting comfortably within the surrounding neighborhood fabric.
- Lighting
- Soft, overcast daylight casting gentle shadows and creating a muted, atmospheric color palette.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, verdant, and domestic, softened by overcast light and rich greenery.
- Environmental context
- Suburban residential street lined with parked cars, a pedestrian path, and lush green hedges.
- Spatial experience
- The buildings recede into the leafy neighborhood context, presenting a textured brick envelope glimpsed through mature trees.
- Composition rhythm
- Layered depth created by foreground branches, parked cars, street furniture, and staggered building masses.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual residential architecture
- Program
- Single-family or multi-family residential housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, metal, asphalt
- Visual identifiers
- brick-facade, pitched-rooflines, suburban-setting, mature-landscaping
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, residential
- Visual tags
- residential, brick, suburban, contextual, low-rise
- Geometry
- Interlocking low brick volumes with varied pitched and flat rooflines set back behind a suburban street and dense hedging.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick masonry with punched openings and integrated hit-and-miss brickwork screens.
- Structural guess
- Masonry cavity wall construction with timber or steel roof framing.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale, fitting comfortably within the surrounding neighborhood fabric.
- Lighting
- Soft, overcast daylight casting gentle shadows and creating a muted, atmospheric color palette.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, verdant, and domestic, softened by overcast light and rich greenery.
- Environmental context
- Suburban residential street lined with parked cars, a pedestrian path, and lush green hedges.
- Spatial experience
- The buildings recede into the leafy neighborhood context, presenting a textured brick envelope glimpsed through mature trees.
- Composition rhythm
- Layered depth created by foreground branches, parked cars, street furniture, and staggered building masses.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual residential architecture
- Program
- Single-family or multi-family residential housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture