VATRAA
2024
A brick facade study by VATRAA demonstrating tectonic detailing through a heavy precast concrete lintel, deep porch reveal, and contrasting perforated brick screens.
- What we like about this project
- Scattered dark voids within the brick wall create a dynamic pixelated screen that contrasts with the heavy planar masonry.
Materials
- red-brick
- concrete
- glass
- steel
Visual identifiers
- red-brick
- concrete-lintel
- recessed-porch
- perforated-brickwork
- punched-window
Style tags
- contemporary
- tectonic
- minimalist
- brick-architecture
Visual tags
- masonry
- facade-composition
- threshold
- textured-brick
- contemporary-vernacular
- Geometry
- Symmetrical red brick volume featuring a central recessed ground-level porch with a heavy concrete lintel, a single square punched window above, and an asymmetrical cluster of perforated open bricks to the left.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or veneer red brickwork with precast concrete lintel and recessed glazed opening.
- Structural guess
- Masonry cavity wall or structural brick with concrete floor plates.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scale entrance portal, approximately one story high, flanked by a massive two-story brick wall.
- Lighting
- Direct soft daylight casting light across the red brick plane with deep shadows inside the recessed entry porch.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, grounded, and tactile, emphasizing the weight and texture of traditional masonry paired with crisp modern geometry.
- Environmental context
- Low grassy planting and paved ground visible at the foreground, suggesting a suburban or rural pastoral setting.
- Spatial experience
- The deep porch acts as an intermediate threshold, pulling the eye from the heavy opaque brick facade into the luminous, transparent interior space beyond.
- Composition rhythm
- Balanced central axis disrupted playfully by the random void pattern of the hit-and-miss brick screen on the left.
- Style reading
- Contemporary tectonic brick architecture
- Program
- Residential entrance or pavilion
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- red-brick, concrete, glass, steel
- Visual identifiers
- red-brick, concrete-lintel, recessed-porch, perforated-brickwork, punched-window
- Style tags
- contemporary, tectonic, minimalist, brick-architecture
- Visual tags
- masonry, facade-composition, threshold, textured-brick, contemporary-vernacular
- Geometry
- Symmetrical red brick volume featuring a central recessed ground-level porch with a heavy concrete lintel, a single square punched window above, and an asymmetrical cluster of perforated open bricks to the left.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or veneer red brickwork with precast concrete lintel and recessed glazed opening.
- Structural guess
- Masonry cavity wall or structural brick with concrete floor plates.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scale entrance portal, approximately one story high, flanked by a massive two-story brick wall.
- Lighting
- Direct soft daylight casting light across the red brick plane with deep shadows inside the recessed entry porch.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, grounded, and tactile, emphasizing the weight and texture of traditional masonry paired with crisp modern geometry.
- Environmental context
- Low grassy planting and paved ground visible at the foreground, suggesting a suburban or rural pastoral setting.
- Spatial experience
- The deep porch acts as an intermediate threshold, pulling the eye from the heavy opaque brick facade into the luminous, transparent interior space beyond.
- Composition rhythm
- Balanced central axis disrupted playfully by the random void pattern of the hit-and-miss brick screen on the left.
- Style reading
- Contemporary tectonic brick architecture
- Program
- Residential entrance or pavilion
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture