Mikhail Riches
A residential masterplan precedent by Mikhail Riches demonstrating low-rise red brick housing integrated directly into a natural meadow landscape.
- What we like about this project
- Low-profile timber footbridges crossing natural swales right at the building doorsteps.
Materials
- red-brick
- timber
- glass
- roof-tiles
Visual identifiers
- red-brick
- low-rise-housing
- meadow-landscape
- gable-roof
- punched-windows
Style tags
- contemporary
- vernacular
- residential-cluster
Visual tags
- housing
- community
- landscape-led
- residential
- brick
- Geometry
- Low-rise gable-roofed brick volumes organized around permeable shared open spaces and winding pedestrian pathways.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing red brick masonry with punched window openings and recessed balcony elements.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry construction with timber roof framing.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scale neighborhood setting featuring two-to-three-story residential blocks.
- Lighting
- Soft overcast daylight casting gentle shadows across grass, paving, and masonry facades.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, community-focused, and verdant residential atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or low-density residential community surrounded by native meadow planting and mature trees.
- Spatial experience
- The view frames a human-scaled residential settlement where open native landscapes flow directly up to building thresholds.
- Composition rhythm
- Framed by foreground tree canopy with alternating gable volumes receding into the distance.
- Style reading
- Contemporary vernacular residential
- Program
- Residential housing cluster
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- red-brick, timber, glass, roof-tiles
- Visual identifiers
- red-brick, low-rise-housing, meadow-landscape, gable-roof, punched-windows
- Style tags
- contemporary, vernacular, residential-cluster
- Visual tags
- housing, community, landscape-led, residential, brick
- Geometry
- Low-rise gable-roofed brick volumes organized around permeable shared open spaces and winding pedestrian pathways.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing red brick masonry with punched window openings and recessed balcony elements.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry construction with timber roof framing.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scale neighborhood setting featuring two-to-three-story residential blocks.
- Lighting
- Soft overcast daylight casting gentle shadows across grass, paving, and masonry facades.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, community-focused, and verdant residential atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or low-density residential community surrounded by native meadow planting and mature trees.
- Spatial experience
- The view frames a human-scaled residential settlement where open native landscapes flow directly up to building thresholds.
- Composition rhythm
- Framed by foreground tree canopy with alternating gable volumes receding into the distance.
- Style reading
- Contemporary vernacular residential
- Program
- Residential housing cluster
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture