The American Rowhome
Photo · Building in great American cities
An exterior facade study of a three-story residential rowhome featuring a monochromatic green panel cladding system and rigorous window alignment, useful for contextual infill housing precedents.
- What we like about this project
- The matching green color extends from the main facade cladding down to the surrounding street fencing.
Materials
- painted-panels
- wood
- glass
- metal
Visual identifiers
- green-panel-facade
- gridded-vertical-windows
- matching-front-fence
- symmetrical-rowhome
Style tags
- contemporary
- vernacular
- residential
Visual tags
- residential
- infill
- monochromatic
- street-edge
- rowhome
- Geometry
- Three-story symmetrical volumetric massing featuring a gridded panel layout with evenly spaced vertical window openings across two upper levels.
- Facade system
- Vertical panel rainscreen or siding system with flush panel joints and punched windows.
- Structural guess
- Wood-frame construction
- Spatial scale
- Three stories tall at human scale, fronted by a low pedestrian sidewalk and fence.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting soft shadows from the mature trees onto the facade and front fence.
- Atmosphere
- Calm and integrated residential street presence through unified color application.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or low-density urban infill context with surrounding residential homes and mature street trees.
- Spatial experience
- The facade presents a calm, uniform urban edge from the street, mediated by a lower front courtyard fence and recessed entries.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict grid composition with vertical panel joints aligning with vertical window mullions.
- Style reading
- Contemporary vernacular residential
- Program
- Multi-family residential rowhouse
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- painted-panels, wood, glass, metal
- Visual identifiers
- green-panel-facade, gridded-vertical-windows, matching-front-fence, symmetrical-rowhome
- Style tags
- contemporary, vernacular, residential
- Visual tags
- residential, infill, monochromatic, street-edge, rowhome
- Geometry
- Three-story symmetrical volumetric massing featuring a gridded panel layout with evenly spaced vertical window openings across two upper levels.
- Facade system
- Vertical panel rainscreen or siding system with flush panel joints and punched windows.
- Structural guess
- Wood-frame construction
- Spatial scale
- Three stories tall at human scale, fronted by a low pedestrian sidewalk and fence.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting soft shadows from the mature trees onto the facade and front fence.
- Atmosphere
- Calm and integrated residential street presence through unified color application.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or low-density urban infill context with surrounding residential homes and mature street trees.
- Spatial experience
- The facade presents a calm, uniform urban edge from the street, mediated by a lower front courtyard fence and recessed entries.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict grid composition with vertical panel joints aligning with vertical window mullions.
- Style reading
- Contemporary vernacular residential
- Program
- Multi-family residential rowhouse
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture