Street-level perspective of an urban infill project
An urban infill facade study by Ackroyd Lowrie demonstrating how a masonry base can anchor a lightweight, stepped vertical metal addition within a historic warehouse context.
- What we like about this project
- The upper metal cladding wraps upward in folded fins that double as deep vertical sunshades and visual texture.
Materials
- buff-brick
- dark-brick
- corrugated-metal
- glass
- steel
Visual identifiers
- brick-base
- corrugated-metal-facade
- stepped-massing
- vertical-fins
- punched-windows
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- industrial-vernacular
Visual tags
- urban-infill
- contextual
- mixed-material
- facade-articulation
- street-edge
- Geometry
- An urban infill building stepping in height, pairing a heavy load-bearing-style masonry base with a setback upper volume clad in vertical ribbed panels.
- Facade system
- Combination of punched masonry wall lower storeys and lightweight rainscreen metal cladding above.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame with non-structural masonry cladding and lightweight upper framing.
- Spatial scale
- Four-to-six story massing scaled to match adjacent historic warehouse street frontages.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting sharp shadows across the vertical metal fins and deep brick window reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp and urban, balancing the warmth of traditional brick with the precise rhythm of modern metal profiles.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban street flanked by historic brick warehouses and mid-rise industrial-fabric architecture.
- Spatial experience
- The building engages directly with the narrow street edge, stepping back on upper floors to negotiate contextual heights and allow light into the street canyon.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal continuity of the historic street line contrasted against the strong vertical ribbing of upper levels.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual infill
- Program
- Mixed-use residential or commercial workspace
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- buff-brick, dark-brick, corrugated-metal, glass, steel
- Visual identifiers
- brick-base, corrugated-metal-facade, stepped-massing, vertical-fins, punched-windows
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, industrial-vernacular
- Visual tags
- urban-infill, contextual, mixed-material, facade-articulation, street-edge
- Geometry
- An urban infill building stepping in height, pairing a heavy load-bearing-style masonry base with a setback upper volume clad in vertical ribbed panels.
- Facade system
- Combination of punched masonry wall lower storeys and lightweight rainscreen metal cladding above.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete frame with non-structural masonry cladding and lightweight upper framing.
- Spatial scale
- Four-to-six story massing scaled to match adjacent historic warehouse street frontages.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting sharp shadows across the vertical metal fins and deep brick window reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp and urban, balancing the warmth of traditional brick with the precise rhythm of modern metal profiles.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban street flanked by historic brick warehouses and mid-rise industrial-fabric architecture.
- Spatial experience
- The building engages directly with the narrow street edge, stepping back on upper floors to negotiate contextual heights and allow light into the street canyon.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal continuity of the historic street line contrasted against the strong vertical ribbing of upper levels.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual infill
- Program
- Mixed-use residential or commercial workspace
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture