Regent Quarter
An urban courtyard precedent demonstrating the successful integration of historic brick architecture with contemporary metallic and glass infill elevations.
- What we like about this project
- Creeping vegetation climbing the upper brick wall softens the boundary between hard architecture and natural landscape elements.
Materials
- brick
- metal
- glass
- stone-paving
Visual identifiers
- urban-courtyard
- brick-facade
- arched-windows
- pedestrian-alley
- mixed-facades
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- mixed-use
Visual tags
- urban-infill
- public-realm
- pedestrian
- courtyard
- contextual-architecture
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical urban courtyard defined by contrasting building elevations on either side, terminating in a brick facade with twin arched windows.
- Facade system
- Combination of punched masonry openings, structural metal panels, and channel glass curtain wall.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry combined with steel or concrete frame additions.
- Spatial scale
- Intimate pedestrian scale, flanked by three- to four-story building elevations.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting crisp shadows across the paved ground plane and defining vertical surface planes.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant and welcoming public realm charged with active pedestrian life and varied material textures.
- Environmental context
- Urban infill courtyard framed by historic and contemporary architectural additions.
- Spatial experience
- A human-scaled pedestrian alleyway opens into an active courtyard framed by outdoor seating and varying facade heights.
- Composition rhythm
- One-point perspective pulling the viewer through the narrow passage into the open courtyard, balanced by vertical window rhythms.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual urban design
- Program
- Mixed-use urban quarter with ground-floor dining and upper-level workspace or residential.
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, metal, glass, stone-paving
- Visual identifiers
- urban-courtyard, brick-facade, arched-windows, pedestrian-alley, mixed-facades
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, mixed-use
- Visual tags
- urban-infill, public-realm, pedestrian, courtyard, contextual-architecture
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical urban courtyard defined by contrasting building elevations on either side, terminating in a brick facade with twin arched windows.
- Facade system
- Combination of punched masonry openings, structural metal panels, and channel glass curtain wall.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry combined with steel or concrete frame additions.
- Spatial scale
- Intimate pedestrian scale, flanked by three- to four-story building elevations.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting crisp shadows across the paved ground plane and defining vertical surface planes.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant and welcoming public realm charged with active pedestrian life and varied material textures.
- Environmental context
- Urban infill courtyard framed by historic and contemporary architectural additions.
- Spatial experience
- A human-scaled pedestrian alleyway opens into an active courtyard framed by outdoor seating and varying facade heights.
- Composition rhythm
- One-point perspective pulling the viewer through the narrow passage into the open courtyard, balanced by vertical window rhythms.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual urban design
- Program
- Mixed-use urban quarter with ground-floor dining and upper-level workspace or residential.
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture