Greenland Place
Surrey Quays · 2014
A facade detail precedent showcasing projecting brick relief that transforms flat masonry into a deeply textured, light-catching surface.
- What we like about this project
- Individual projecting bricks catch light differently depending on their position, making the facade appear to ripple.
Materials
- brick
- mortar
Visual identifiers
- projecting-brick
- textured-masonry
- relief-facade
- header-course
Style tags
- contemporary
- tactile
- material-focused
Visual tags
- masonry-detail
- tactile
- facade-articulation
- textural-brick
- contemporary-brickwork
- Geometry
- Flat Flemish-style or running-bond brick wall featuring intermittent header bricks projecting outward to create a tactile, three-dimensional relief pattern.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or cavity-wall masonry with patterned brick bonding.
- Structural guess
- Brick veneer over backup wall or masonry cavity construction.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scale building envelope detail, viewed at close range.
- Lighting
- Soft, overcast daylight grazing across the wall surface, accentuating the projection shadows of individual bricks.
- Atmosphere
- Craft-oriented, rhythmic, and subtly sculptural.
- Environmental context
- Exterior facade detail shot showing close-up brickwork without surrounding context.
- Spatial experience
- The wall plane gains depth and dynamic shadow play, shifting visual weight and breaking down the monolithicity of the masonry.
- Composition rhythm
- Diagonal and vertical shifts of projecting bricks create an undulating rhythm across the planar surface.
- Style reading
- Contemporary tactile masonry
- Program
- Residential exterior wall
- Perspective
- Detail Close-up
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, mortar
- Visual identifiers
- projecting-brick, textured-masonry, relief-facade, header-course
- Style tags
- contemporary, tactile, material-focused
- Visual tags
- masonry-detail, tactile, facade-articulation, textural-brick, contemporary-brickwork
- Geometry
- Flat Flemish-style or running-bond brick wall featuring intermittent header bricks projecting outward to create a tactile, three-dimensional relief pattern.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or cavity-wall masonry with patterned brick bonding.
- Structural guess
- Brick veneer over backup wall or masonry cavity construction.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scale building envelope detail, viewed at close range.
- Lighting
- Soft, overcast daylight grazing across the wall surface, accentuating the projection shadows of individual bricks.
- Atmosphere
- Craft-oriented, rhythmic, and subtly sculptural.
- Environmental context
- Exterior facade detail shot showing close-up brickwork without surrounding context.
- Spatial experience
- The wall plane gains depth and dynamic shadow play, shifting visual weight and breaking down the monolithicity of the masonry.
- Composition rhythm
- Diagonal and vertical shifts of projecting bricks create an undulating rhythm across the planar surface.
- Style reading
- Contemporary tactile masonry
- Program
- Residential exterior wall
- Perspective
- Detail Close-up
- Discipline
- architecture