ONE Environments
An exterior residential precedent demonstrating how multi-family brick blocks can integrate with mature existing landscape and street edges.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- metal
- wood
Visual identifiers
- brick-facade
- mature-trees
- glass-corner-bay
- street-parking
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- residential
Visual tags
- residential
- streetscape
- brick
- contextual
- low-rise
- Geometry
- Low-rise multi-family residential blocks aligned along a street edge with intermittent vertical glass bays.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick masonry with curtain-wall glazed corner extensions.
- Structural guess
- Masonry cavity wall construction with concrete slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Three-to-four-story residential buildings scaled down by generous tree canopies and street furniture.
- Lighting
- Bright midday daylight casting short, crisp shadows beneath cars and trees.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, leafy suburban atmosphere under clear sunlight.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or campus street edge featuring mature deciduous trees and parked vehicles along the curb.
- Spatial experience
- The streetscape moves between dense mature trees and structured brick facades, balancing suburban green character with urban infill.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window stacks and glass bays punctuate the horizontal brick massing.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual residential architecture
- Program
- Residential apartments or housing block
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, metal, wood
- Visual identifiers
- brick-facade, mature-trees, glass-corner-bay, street-parking
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, residential
- Visual tags
- residential, streetscape, brick, contextual, low-rise
- Geometry
- Low-rise multi-family residential blocks aligned along a street edge with intermittent vertical glass bays.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing brick masonry with curtain-wall glazed corner extensions.
- Structural guess
- Masonry cavity wall construction with concrete slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Three-to-four-story residential buildings scaled down by generous tree canopies and street furniture.
- Lighting
- Bright midday daylight casting short, crisp shadows beneath cars and trees.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, leafy suburban atmosphere under clear sunlight.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or campus street edge featuring mature deciduous trees and parked vehicles along the curb.
- Spatial experience
- The streetscape moves between dense mature trees and structured brick facades, balancing suburban green character with urban infill.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window stacks and glass bays punctuate the horizontal brick massing.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual residential architecture
- Program
- Residential apartments or housing block
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture