RIBA South East Awards Shortlist
A suburban residential precedent featuring stepped brick volumes that integrate smoothly into a leafy neighborhood streetscape.
- What we like about this project
- Perforated brick screen walls add textural variation and privacy to upper windows.
Materials
- brick
- mortar
- glass
- metal
- asphalt
Visual identifiers
- brick-pavilion
- suburban-context
- stepped-volumes
- landscaped-edge
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- brick-architecture
Visual tags
- residential
- suburban
- brick
- contextual
- low-rise
- Geometry
- Interlocking low-rise brick volumes step down and recede behind mature landscaping and parked cars, creating a layered suburban composition.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick masonry with recessed windows and perforated brick screen details.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry with timber or steel floor/roof joists.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled residential blocks, approximately one to two stories high.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused daylight under an overcast sky, casting minimal shadows and emphasizing matte brick textures.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet, domestic suburban morning calm framed by mature foliage and soft light.
- Environmental context
- Suburban street with mature trees, trimmed hedges, parked cars, and an asphalt sidewalk.
- Spatial experience
- Approached from a residential sidewalk, the brick volumes read as a sequence of discrete gabled and flat-roofed pavilions embedded in greenery.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal stratification of foreground path, middle-ground street with cars, and background building volumes.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual residential architecture
- Program
- Suburban residential housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, mortar, glass, metal, asphalt
- Visual identifiers
- brick-pavilion, suburban-context, stepped-volumes, landscaped-edge
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, brick-architecture
- Visual tags
- residential, suburban, brick, contextual, low-rise
- Geometry
- Interlocking low-rise brick volumes step down and recede behind mature landscaping and parked cars, creating a layered suburban composition.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick masonry with recessed windows and perforated brick screen details.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry with timber or steel floor/roof joists.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled residential blocks, approximately one to two stories high.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused daylight under an overcast sky, casting minimal shadows and emphasizing matte brick textures.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet, domestic suburban morning calm framed by mature foliage and soft light.
- Environmental context
- Suburban street with mature trees, trimmed hedges, parked cars, and an asphalt sidewalk.
- Spatial experience
- Approached from a residential sidewalk, the brick volumes read as a sequence of discrete gabled and flat-roofed pavilions embedded in greenery.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal stratification of foreground path, middle-ground street with cars, and background building volumes.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual residential architecture
- Program
- Suburban residential housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture