VATRAA
2024
A monolithic red brick facade featuring a single punched window and a decorative screen wall, serving as a precedent for solid residential or small studio envelope design.
- What we like about this project
- The scattered hit-and-miss brick pattern creates an unexpected porous texture within the otherwise heavy solid wall.
Materials
- red-brick
- concrete
- glass
Visual identifiers
- red-brick
- punched-window
- perforated-screen
- recessed-entry
Style tags
- contemporary
- minimalist
- rationalist
Visual tags
- brick-facade
- monolithic
- symmetrical
- suburban
- minimalist
- Geometry
- Symmetrical low-rise rectangular block featuring a centered recessed entry, a single upper punched window, and an offset hit-and-miss brick screen.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or veneer red brick masonry wall with punched and perforated openings.
- Structural guess
- Masonry cavity wall or reinforced concrete frame with brick cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential or small studio scale relative to the car and planting.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight creating soft shadows across the brick facade and parking area.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet, grounded, and introspective due to the heavy masonry massing and muted natural light.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or rural plot surrounded by mature trees, wild planting beds, and a paved driveway with a parked car.
- Spatial experience
- The building presents a solid, protective face to the approach driveway, drawing the eye toward the shadowed central portal.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict bilateral massing anchored by the asymmetrical placement of the brick screen to the left.
- Style reading
- Contemporary minimalist brick architecture
- Program
- Residential or small studio
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- red-brick, concrete, glass
- Visual identifiers
- red-brick, punched-window, perforated-screen, recessed-entry
- Style tags
- contemporary, minimalist, rationalist
- Visual tags
- brick-facade, monolithic, symmetrical, suburban, minimalist
- Geometry
- Symmetrical low-rise rectangular block featuring a centered recessed entry, a single upper punched window, and an offset hit-and-miss brick screen.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or veneer red brick masonry wall with punched and perforated openings.
- Structural guess
- Masonry cavity wall or reinforced concrete frame with brick cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential or small studio scale relative to the car and planting.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight creating soft shadows across the brick facade and parking area.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet, grounded, and introspective due to the heavy masonry massing and muted natural light.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or rural plot surrounded by mature trees, wild planting beds, and a paved driveway with a parked car.
- Spatial experience
- The building presents a solid, protective face to the approach driveway, drawing the eye toward the shadowed central portal.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict bilateral massing anchored by the asymmetrical placement of the brick screen to the left.
- Style reading
- Contemporary minimalist brick architecture
- Program
- Residential or small studio
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture