Mikhail Riches
An urban residential apartment precedent demonstrating contextual brick massing, rhythmically spaced balconies, and a articulated roof profile.
- What we like about this project
- Textured brick banding accents divide the top floor and roof elements from the main body.
Materials
- buff-brick
- red-brick-accent
- metal-balustrades
- tile-roof
Visual identifiers
- buff-brick
- projecting-balconies
- stepped-roofline
- corner-massing
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- brick-tectonic
Visual tags
- residential
- brick-architecture
- urban-infill
- contextual
- housing
- Geometry
- L-shaped massing wrapping a corner street intersection, stepping down with pitched roof profiles and projecting vertical bay rhythms.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or clad brick masonry wall with punched window openings and integrated precast or metal balconies.
- Structural guess
- Masonry cavity wall or reinforced concrete frame with brick facade.
- Spatial scale
- Four-story residential scale matching neighboring urban fabric.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused daylight casting gentle shadows across the brick facade from the upper left.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting and calm neighborhood atmosphere blending modern massing with traditional material warmth.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner with historic masonry neighbors, mature street trees, and pedestrian activity on the sidewalk.
- Spatial experience
- The building frames the curved urban street edge, presenting a welcoming human-scaled podium with deep entrance reveals and sidewalk landscaping.
- Composition rhythm
- Alternating solid brick piers and recessed window openings with projecting balcony volumes spaced rhythmically along the street facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual housing
- Program
- Multi-family residential housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- buff-brick, red-brick-accent, metal-balustrades, tile-roof
- Visual identifiers
- buff-brick, projecting-balconies, stepped-roofline, corner-massing
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, brick-tectonic
- Visual tags
- residential, brick-architecture, urban-infill, contextual, housing
- Geometry
- L-shaped massing wrapping a corner street intersection, stepping down with pitched roof profiles and projecting vertical bay rhythms.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or clad brick masonry wall with punched window openings and integrated precast or metal balconies.
- Structural guess
- Masonry cavity wall or reinforced concrete frame with brick facade.
- Spatial scale
- Four-story residential scale matching neighboring urban fabric.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused daylight casting gentle shadows across the brick facade from the upper left.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting and calm neighborhood atmosphere blending modern massing with traditional material warmth.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner with historic masonry neighbors, mature street trees, and pedestrian activity on the sidewalk.
- Spatial experience
- The building frames the curved urban street edge, presenting a welcoming human-scaled podium with deep entrance reveals and sidewalk landscaping.
- Composition rhythm
- Alternating solid brick piers and recessed window openings with projecting balcony volumes spaced rhythmically along the street facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual housing
- Program
- Multi-family residential housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture