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A magazine spread featuring Henley Halebrown's student housing project, demonstrating the use of deep masonry grid frames with contrasting colored window reveals.
- What we like about this project
- Vibrant pink finish applied to the inner window reveals creates a stark pop of color against the dark brickwork.
Materials
- brick
- masonry
- glass
- painted-metal
Visual identifiers
- brick-facade
- punched-windows
- pink-reveals
- masonry-grid
Style tags
- contemporary
- rationalist
- contextual
Visual tags
- urban-infill
- residential
- grid-facade
- color-contrast
- brickwork
- Geometry
- Orthogonal grid facade with recessed punched openings set behind a deep masonry structural frame.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or clad masonry grid wall with deeply recessed punched glazing units.
- Structural guess
- Masonry structural frame or reinforced concrete with brick cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story residential facade viewed from pedestrian scale at street level.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight catching the vibrant pink reveals and casting crisp shadows within the deep masonry pockets.
- Atmosphere
- Bold and structured, balancing heavy industrial masonry mass with surprisingly vibrant color accents.
- Environmental context
- Urban infill setting with tight brick passageways and adjacent industrial-context building volumes.
- Spatial experience
- The view from a tight brick passageway opens onto a brightly colored facade that creates a strong focal point at the urban threshold.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical and horizontal grid rhythm defined by repeating structural piers and stacked window bays.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual rationalism
- Program
- Student housing / residential
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, masonry, glass, painted-metal
- Visual identifiers
- brick-facade, punched-windows, pink-reveals, masonry-grid
- Style tags
- contemporary, rationalist, contextual
- Visual tags
- urban-infill, residential, grid-facade, color-contrast, brickwork
- Geometry
- Orthogonal grid facade with recessed punched openings set behind a deep masonry structural frame.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or clad masonry grid wall with deeply recessed punched glazing units.
- Structural guess
- Masonry structural frame or reinforced concrete with brick cladding.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story residential facade viewed from pedestrian scale at street level.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight catching the vibrant pink reveals and casting crisp shadows within the deep masonry pockets.
- Atmosphere
- Bold and structured, balancing heavy industrial masonry mass with surprisingly vibrant color accents.
- Environmental context
- Urban infill setting with tight brick passageways and adjacent industrial-context building volumes.
- Spatial experience
- The view from a tight brick passageway opens onto a brightly colored facade that creates a strong focal point at the urban threshold.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical and horizontal grid rhythm defined by repeating structural piers and stacked window bays.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual rationalism
- Program
- Student housing / residential
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture