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A striking urban infill facade featuring a stepped cascading upper volume with integrated terraces and a highly porous patterned brick base.
- What we like about this project
- The lower base dissolves into a delicate, screen-like brick lattice that merges indoor and outdoor street life.
Materials
- brick
- terracotta
- glass
- steel
- planting
Visual identifiers
- stepped-terraces
- brick-screen
- terraced-facade
- punched-glazing
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- stepped
Visual tags
- urban-infill
- mixed-use
- stepped-massing
- porous-facade
- terrace
- Geometry
- Rectangular lower volume with a highly porous patterned brick screen, supporting a stepped, cascading upper mass with alternating punched glazing and landscaped terraces.
- Facade system
- Patterned terracotta screen wall at base; unitized punched window system with integrated planters on stepped upper volumes.
- Structural guess
- Steel or reinforced concrete frame supporting stepped upper floor plates.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story urban building with pedestrian scale active frontages and human-scaled stepped terraces.
- Lighting
- Bright daytime overcast lighting casting soft ambient reflections on large glass windows and subtle shadows across the stepped masonry volumes.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant, urban, and community-oriented, blending civic activity with layered greenery and masonry.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with neighboring brick residential buildings, parked bicycles, bus traffic, and street vegetation.
- Spatial experience
- The street edge transitions smoothly from an open public sidewalk through a double-height semi-transparent screen into active ground-level spaces, while upper levels pull back to form outdoor terraces.
- Composition rhythm
- Dynamic shifting grid rhythm on upper tiers contrasting with a dense continuous screen pattern at the base.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual stepped massing
- Program
- Mixed-use residential and community building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, terracotta, glass, steel, planting
- Visual identifiers
- stepped-terraces, brick-screen, terraced-facade, punched-glazing
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, stepped
- Visual tags
- urban-infill, mixed-use, stepped-massing, porous-facade, terrace
- Geometry
- Rectangular lower volume with a highly porous patterned brick screen, supporting a stepped, cascading upper mass with alternating punched glazing and landscaped terraces.
- Facade system
- Patterned terracotta screen wall at base; unitized punched window system with integrated planters on stepped upper volumes.
- Structural guess
- Steel or reinforced concrete frame supporting stepped upper floor plates.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story urban building with pedestrian scale active frontages and human-scaled stepped terraces.
- Lighting
- Bright daytime overcast lighting casting soft ambient reflections on large glass windows and subtle shadows across the stepped masonry volumes.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant, urban, and community-oriented, blending civic activity with layered greenery and masonry.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with neighboring brick residential buildings, parked bicycles, bus traffic, and street vegetation.
- Spatial experience
- The street edge transitions smoothly from an open public sidewalk through a double-height semi-transparent screen into active ground-level spaces, while upper levels pull back to form outdoor terraces.
- Composition rhythm
- Dynamic shifting grid rhythm on upper tiers contrasting with a dense continuous screen pattern at the base.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual stepped massing
- Program
- Mixed-use residential and community building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture