9033 Ramsgate Ave. apartments
An exterior dusk rendering of a multi-family apartment complex by Albert Group Architects, showcasing contextual juxtaposition with an existing historic home and a regular grid of recessed punched windows.
- What we like about this project
- The preservation and proximity of the traditional single-family house directly in front of the massive contemporary infill volume.
Materials
- stucco
- glass
- dark-brick
- metal
Visual identifiers
- punched-windows
- white-stucco-facade
- dusk-illumination
- urban-infill
- contextual-juxtaposition
Style tags
- contemporary
- rationalist
- contextual
Visual tags
- residential
- apartments
- dusk
- facade-rhythm
- contextual-design
- contemporary-infill
- Geometry
- An orthogonal multi-story multi-family volume steps back along the street front, featuring a grid of recessed vertical and square punched windows alongside a low-slung traditional residential structure in the foreground.
- Facade system
- Rendered wall system with deep punched window reveals and ground-floor storefront glazing.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame or reinforced masonry construction with flat slab floors.
- Spatial scale
- A mid-rise multi-family apartment block towering over a single-story traditional house.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with artificial illumination glowing from interior windows and ground-level storefronts, creating vertical highlights on the facade.
- Atmosphere
- Serene twilight mood with warm interior lighting contrasting against the cool blue evening sky.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or transitional urban street edge with a paved road, grassy verge, and neighboring low-rise residential structures.
- Spatial experience
- The street elevation contrasts a dense, contemporary apartment block with a historic residential scale, creating a dialogue between old and new urban fabrics at dusk.
- Composition rhythm
- Irregular yet controlled vertical grid of rectangular and square openings across a monolithic white plane.
- Style reading
- Contemporary multi-family residential architecture set against traditional context
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartments
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stucco, glass, dark-brick, metal
- Visual identifiers
- punched-windows, white-stucco-facade, dusk-illumination, urban-infill, contextual-juxtaposition
- Style tags
- contemporary, rationalist, contextual
- Visual tags
- residential, apartments, dusk, facade-rhythm, contextual-design, contemporary-infill
- Geometry
- An orthogonal multi-story multi-family volume steps back along the street front, featuring a grid of recessed vertical and square punched windows alongside a low-slung traditional residential structure in the foreground.
- Facade system
- Rendered wall system with deep punched window reveals and ground-floor storefront glazing.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame or reinforced masonry construction with flat slab floors.
- Spatial scale
- A mid-rise multi-family apartment block towering over a single-story traditional house.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with artificial illumination glowing from interior windows and ground-level storefronts, creating vertical highlights on the facade.
- Atmosphere
- Serene twilight mood with warm interior lighting contrasting against the cool blue evening sky.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or transitional urban street edge with a paved road, grassy verge, and neighboring low-rise residential structures.
- Spatial experience
- The street elevation contrasts a dense, contemporary apartment block with a historic residential scale, creating a dialogue between old and new urban fabrics at dusk.
- Composition rhythm
- Irregular yet controlled vertical grid of rectangular and square openings across a monolithic white plane.
- Style reading
- Contemporary multi-family residential architecture set against traditional context
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartments
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture