Joralemon Street PASSIVE HOUSE - Steering House
A historic street facade precedent showcasing traditional masonry rowhouse proportions, operable louvered shutters, and raised stoop entry sequences.
- What we like about this project
- Handwritten archival annotation visible in the upper right corner of the photograph.
Materials
- brick
- wood
- stone
- wrought-iron
Visual identifiers
- historic-brick
- operable-shutters
- raised-stoop
- punched-windows
Style tags
- historic
- vernacular
- traditional
Visual tags
- historic-preservation
- rowhouse
- urban-facade
- streetwall
- traditional
- Geometry
- Symmetrical three-story brick facades aligned along a slightly sloping street edge, featuring regular punched window bays and raised entry stoops.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick masonry with punched window openings and wood shutters.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry exterior walls with timber floor joists.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scale residential street frontage approximately three to four stories high.
- Lighting
- Direct flat daylight casting soft, short shadows under window lintels and shutters.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet, documentary stillness captured in a historic urban streetscape.
- Environmental context
- Urban residential streetscape with cobblestone paving and historic rowhouse fabric.
- Spatial experience
- The street elevation establishes a continuous, rhythmic streetwall with distinct vertical verticality at each individual rowhouse entry.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict grid of window openings paired with alternating operable shutters creates a steady horizontal and vertical rhythm.
- Style reading
- Historic 19th-century vernacular architecture
- Program
- Residential rowhouse
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, wood, stone, wrought-iron
- Visual identifiers
- historic-brick, operable-shutters, raised-stoop, punched-windows
- Style tags
- historic, vernacular, traditional
- Visual tags
- historic-preservation, rowhouse, urban-facade, streetwall, traditional
- Geometry
- Symmetrical three-story brick facades aligned along a slightly sloping street edge, featuring regular punched window bays and raised entry stoops.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick masonry with punched window openings and wood shutters.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry exterior walls with timber floor joists.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scale residential street frontage approximately three to four stories high.
- Lighting
- Direct flat daylight casting soft, short shadows under window lintels and shutters.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet, documentary stillness captured in a historic urban streetscape.
- Environmental context
- Urban residential streetscape with cobblestone paving and historic rowhouse fabric.
- Spatial experience
- The street elevation establishes a continuous, rhythmic streetwall with distinct vertical verticality at each individual rowhouse entry.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict grid of window openings paired with alternating operable shutters creates a steady horizontal and vertical rhythm.
- Style reading
- Historic 19th-century vernacular architecture
- Program
- Residential rowhouse
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture