Large Scale
A large-scale multi-family residential exterior facade precedent demonstrating grid articulation, recessed balconies, and active ground-floor retail storefronts.
- What we like about this project
- The central vertical light-colored bay splits the darker massing symmetrically into balanced wings.
Materials
- precast-concrete
- glass
- metal
- painted-wood
Visual identifiers
- punched-windows
- grid-facade
- balconies
- ground-floor-retail
Style tags
- contemporary
- rationalist
- urban
Visual tags
- residential
- urban-infill
- facade-articulation
- multi-family
- street-edge
- Geometry
- Orthogonal multi-story block with a grid of punched windows and articulated vertical bays breaking down the large massing.
- Facade system
- Precast panel system with inset window frames and glazed balcony railings.
- Structural guess
- Concrete podium with wood-frame or steel-stud residential levels above.
- Spatial scale
- A large-scale six-story residential block relative to human and vehicular scale.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting clear, crisp vertical shadows across the facade relief.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, clean, and welcoming suburban-to-urban residential street feel.
- Environmental context
- Urban street setting with parked cars, blooming cherry blossom trees, and pedestrian scale figures.
- Spatial experience
- The street-facing facade presents a modulated urban edge with framed balconies and ground-floor retail storefronts.
- Composition rhythm
- Alternating vertical facade segments creating a rhythm of solid panels and framed glass balconies.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building with ground-floor commercial space
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- precast-concrete, glass, metal, painted-wood
- Visual identifiers
- punched-windows, grid-facade, balconies, ground-floor-retail
- Style tags
- contemporary, rationalist, urban
- Visual tags
- residential, urban-infill, facade-articulation, multi-family, street-edge
- Geometry
- Orthogonal multi-story block with a grid of punched windows and articulated vertical bays breaking down the large massing.
- Facade system
- Precast panel system with inset window frames and glazed balcony railings.
- Structural guess
- Concrete podium with wood-frame or steel-stud residential levels above.
- Spatial scale
- A large-scale six-story residential block relative to human and vehicular scale.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting clear, crisp vertical shadows across the facade relief.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, clean, and welcoming suburban-to-urban residential street feel.
- Environmental context
- Urban street setting with parked cars, blooming cherry blossom trees, and pedestrian scale figures.
- Spatial experience
- The street-facing facade presents a modulated urban edge with framed balconies and ground-floor retail storefronts.
- Composition rhythm
- Alternating vertical facade segments creating a rhythm of solid panels and framed glass balconies.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building with ground-floor commercial space
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture