Quince
An exterior street-level view of a stepped multi-family residential building by Works Progress Architecture, demonstrating massing breaks and punched window rhythms in an urban setting.
- What we like about this project
- A large arched portal cut-out at the lower podium level visually connects the street to inner courtyard or landscaping beyond.
Materials
- stucco
- glass
- metal
Visual identifiers
- stepped-massing
- punched-windows
- arched-portal
- multi-family-tower
Style tags
- contemporary
- urban
- rationalist
Visual tags
- urban-context
- residential
- stepped-form
- facade-articulation
- streetscape
- Geometry
- Stepped multi-volume massing rising from a broad lower podium to a taller central tower, featuring an arched portal opening at the lower level and ordered punched windows.
- Facade system
- Punched window facade with rhythmic vertical openings and arched ground-level colonnade/portal elements.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame structure with podium transfer slabs
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story residential mid-rise tower dominating the street view relative to cars and lower surrounding housing.
- Lighting
- Late afternoon or early morning golden hour sunlight striking the facades with long soft shadows and a warm glowing sky.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, sunlit urban twilight atmosphere highlighting the crisp geometry of the building against a soft sky.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corridor with parked cars, dense roadside trees, and neighboring residential buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The building terminates a street vista, creating a strong urban presence while stepping down its massing to negotiate surrounding contextual scales.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical repetition of punched window openings contrasted by horizontal step-backs in the building's upper massing tiers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban multi-family residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stucco, glass, metal
- Visual identifiers
- stepped-massing, punched-windows, arched-portal, multi-family-tower
- Style tags
- contemporary, urban, rationalist
- Visual tags
- urban-context, residential, stepped-form, facade-articulation, streetscape
- Geometry
- Stepped multi-volume massing rising from a broad lower podium to a taller central tower, featuring an arched portal opening at the lower level and ordered punched windows.
- Facade system
- Punched window facade with rhythmic vertical openings and arched ground-level colonnade/portal elements.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame structure with podium transfer slabs
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story residential mid-rise tower dominating the street view relative to cars and lower surrounding housing.
- Lighting
- Late afternoon or early morning golden hour sunlight striking the facades with long soft shadows and a warm glowing sky.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, sunlit urban twilight atmosphere highlighting the crisp geometry of the building against a soft sky.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corridor with parked cars, dense roadside trees, and neighboring residential buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The building terminates a street vista, creating a strong urban presence while stepping down its massing to negotiate surrounding contextual scales.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical repetition of punched window openings contrasted by horizontal step-backs in the building's upper massing tiers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban multi-family residential architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture