The American Rowhome
Photo · Building in great American cities
A street facade precedent for contemporary multi-family rowhomes using monochromatic panel cladding and rigorous window symmetry to integrate into a residential streetscape.
- What we like about this project
- The uniform green color treatment extends from the main building envelope down to the front perimeter fence.
Materials
- painted-wood-panels
- glass
- metal-railings
Visual identifiers
- green-cladding
- symmetrical-facade
- punched-windows
- panelized-walls
Style tags
- contemporary
- minimalist
- vernacular
Visual tags
- rowhome
- residential
- monochromatic
- street-facade
- contemporary-vernacular
- Geometry
- Three-story symmetrical volume set back behind a low green fence, featuring a regular grid of vertical panel seams and punched rectangular windows.
- Facade system
- Vertical panel rainscreen system with recessed punched window openings and integrated Juliet balconies.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame construction
- Spatial scale
- Three-story residential scale, fitting contextually into a neighborhood of detached or semi-detached homes.
- Lighting
- Direct, bright midday sunlight casting sharp shadows from the trees onto the front fence and facade.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, orderly residential dignity under a bright clear sky.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or urban residential street context flanked by older traditional neighborhood housing and mature trees.
- Spatial experience
- The facade presents a unified, color-saturated front to the street, mediating between the public sidewalk and private residential entries hidden behind small front gardens.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict grid composition with repeating vertical panel joints and paired window bays.
- Style reading
- Contemporary minimalist vernacular
- Program
- Multi-family residential rowhomes
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- painted-wood-panels, glass, metal-railings
- Visual identifiers
- green-cladding, symmetrical-facade, punched-windows, panelized-walls
- Style tags
- contemporary, minimalist, vernacular
- Visual tags
- rowhome, residential, monochromatic, street-facade, contemporary-vernacular
- Geometry
- Three-story symmetrical volume set back behind a low green fence, featuring a regular grid of vertical panel seams and punched rectangular windows.
- Facade system
- Vertical panel rainscreen system with recessed punched window openings and integrated Juliet balconies.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame construction
- Spatial scale
- Three-story residential scale, fitting contextually into a neighborhood of detached or semi-detached homes.
- Lighting
- Direct, bright midday sunlight casting sharp shadows from the trees onto the front fence and facade.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, orderly residential dignity under a bright clear sky.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or urban residential street context flanked by older traditional neighborhood housing and mature trees.
- Spatial experience
- The facade presents a unified, color-saturated front to the street, mediating between the public sidewalk and private residential entries hidden behind small front gardens.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict grid composition with repeating vertical panel joints and paired window bays.
- Style reading
- Contemporary minimalist vernacular
- Program
- Multi-family residential rowhomes
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture