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A detailed residential facade precedent utilizing rich red brickwork, layered textured spandrels, and deeply stacked balconies to articulate a monumental yet human-scale urban elevation.
- What we like about this project
- Textured corbelled brick coursing wraps the spandrel band, contrasting sharply with the smooth vertical piers.
Materials
- red-brick
- perforated-metal
- glass
- painted-steel
Visual identifiers
- red-brick
- recessed-balconies
- perforated-metal-railings
- textured-masonry
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- rationalist
Visual tags
- residential
- brick-facade
- symmetry
- urban-housing
- balconies
- Geometry
- Symmetrical multi-story facade organized around a central recessed vertical balcony stack, flanked by regular punched window bays and textured masonry spandrel zones.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or anchored red brick masonry wall with integrated prefabricated balcony loggias and perforated metal guards.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame with masonry cavity wall construction
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story residential building facade with human-scale ground entrance and balcony figures.
- Lighting
- Direct, strong sunlight from the side casting crisp, geometric shadows across the textured brickwork and reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, solid, and tactile, animated by strong sunlight and shadow play across varying brick bonds.
- Environmental context
- Urban street or plaza edge with pedestrian scale activity at the ground level.
- Spatial experience
- The deep central loggias create a layered transition between private outdoor living and the public street edge below.
- Composition rhythm
- Strictly symmetrical tripartite vertical composition with alternating recessed loggias and solid masonry piers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- red-brick, perforated-metal, glass, painted-steel
- Visual identifiers
- red-brick, recessed-balconies, perforated-metal-railings, textured-masonry
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, rationalist
- Visual tags
- residential, brick-facade, symmetry, urban-housing, balconies
- Geometry
- Symmetrical multi-story facade organized around a central recessed vertical balcony stack, flanked by regular punched window bays and textured masonry spandrel zones.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or anchored red brick masonry wall with integrated prefabricated balcony loggias and perforated metal guards.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame with masonry cavity wall construction
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story residential building facade with human-scale ground entrance and balcony figures.
- Lighting
- Direct, strong sunlight from the side casting crisp, geometric shadows across the textured brickwork and reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, solid, and tactile, animated by strong sunlight and shadow play across varying brick bonds.
- Environmental context
- Urban street or plaza edge with pedestrian scale activity at the ground level.
- Spatial experience
- The deep central loggias create a layered transition between private outdoor living and the public street edge below.
- Composition rhythm
- Strictly symmetrical tripartite vertical composition with alternating recessed loggias and solid masonry piers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture