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A residential streetscape precedent by Adam Khan Architects demonstrating low-rise red brick housing with stepped volumes and a shared public realm.
- What we like about this project
- Chalk drawings on the asphalt emphasize the shared, child-friendly nature of the vehicular path.
Materials
- red-brick
- metal
- glass
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- red-brick
- stepped-massing
- shared-street
- punched-windows
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- brick-architecture
Visual tags
- residential
- housing
- brick
- pedestrian-street
- low-rise
- contextual
- Geometry
- Stepped red brick housing blocks line a shared residential street, with alternating roof heights and projecting volumes creating rhythm.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing red brick masonry walls with recessed punched windows and slim metal canopies over entries.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry or steel-framed brick-clad construction
- Spatial scale
- Low-rise residential scale, approximately two to three stories high, oriented around a pedestrian-friendly street.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused overcast daylight casting subtle shadows along the facades and street.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, community-focused neighborhood atmosphere under soft daylight.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or urban residential street configured as a shared play space, flanked by brick boundary walls and mature trees.
- Spatial experience
- The composition prioritizes the pedestrian street realm, where the building volumes step back and create intimate human-scaled pockets.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical window placement combined with stepping horizontal parapets and rooflines.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual residential
- Program
- Residential housing development
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- red-brick, metal, glass, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- red-brick, stepped-massing, shared-street, punched-windows
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, brick-architecture
- Visual tags
- residential, housing, brick, pedestrian-street, low-rise, contextual
- Geometry
- Stepped red brick housing blocks line a shared residential street, with alternating roof heights and projecting volumes creating rhythm.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing red brick masonry walls with recessed punched windows and slim metal canopies over entries.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry or steel-framed brick-clad construction
- Spatial scale
- Low-rise residential scale, approximately two to three stories high, oriented around a pedestrian-friendly street.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused overcast daylight casting subtle shadows along the facades and street.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, community-focused neighborhood atmosphere under soft daylight.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or urban residential street configured as a shared play space, flanked by brick boundary walls and mature trees.
- Spatial experience
- The composition prioritizes the pedestrian street realm, where the building volumes step back and create intimate human-scaled pockets.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical window placement combined with stepping horizontal parapets and rooflines.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual residential
- Program
- Residential housing development
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture