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A mixed-use urban infill precedent by AO-Architects Orange featuring articulated red brick and stone facades that activate the street corner with ground-floor retail and upper-level housing.
- What we like about this project
- The corner transition breaks the massing into two distinct architectural languages (brick vs. stone) while maintaining a cohesive roofline.
Materials
- red-brick
- light-stone
- glass
- metal
- stucco
Visual identifiers
- red-brick-façade
- stone-cladding
- street-level-retail
- urban-corner
- rooftop-terrace
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- urban-vernacular
Visual tags
- mixed-use
- urban-infill
- street-edge
- commercial-ground-floor
- residential
- balconies
- brick-architecture
- Geometry
- Multi-story mixed-use massing divided into distinct compositional blocks; left wing features red brick piers with storefront glazing, right wing steps back with light stone cladding and large punched windows.
- Facade system
- Combination of punched window systems, curtain wall ground-floor storefronts, and articulated masonry piers.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete podium with framed superstructure above.
- Spatial scale
- Four to five-story human-scaled urban infill building relative to pedestrians and street furniture.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight from the side casting soft shadows, complemented by an artificial lens flare near the upper right roofline.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant and pedestrian-friendly neighborhood atmosphere animated by street life and retail transparency.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner intersection with traffic lights, sidewalks, storefront outdoor seating, and mature street trees.
- Spatial experience
- Pedestrian street-level approach transitions from active retail storefronts to upper-level residential balconies and an accessible green roof terrace.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical rhythm established by alternating brick piers, stone-clad structural bays, and recessed balconies.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban mixed-use vernacular
- Program
- Mixed-use residential and retail development
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- red-brick, light-stone, glass, metal, stucco
- Visual identifiers
- red-brick-façade, stone-cladding, street-level-retail, urban-corner, rooftop-terrace
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, urban-vernacular
- Visual tags
- mixed-use, urban-infill, street-edge, commercial-ground-floor, residential, balconies, brick-architecture
- Geometry
- Multi-story mixed-use massing divided into distinct compositional blocks; left wing features red brick piers with storefront glazing, right wing steps back with light stone cladding and large punched windows.
- Facade system
- Combination of punched window systems, curtain wall ground-floor storefronts, and articulated masonry piers.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete podium with framed superstructure above.
- Spatial scale
- Four to five-story human-scaled urban infill building relative to pedestrians and street furniture.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight from the side casting soft shadows, complemented by an artificial lens flare near the upper right roofline.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant and pedestrian-friendly neighborhood atmosphere animated by street life and retail transparency.
- Environmental context
- Urban street corner intersection with traffic lights, sidewalks, storefront outdoor seating, and mature street trees.
- Spatial experience
- Pedestrian street-level approach transitions from active retail storefronts to upper-level residential balconies and an accessible green roof terrace.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical rhythm established by alternating brick piers, stone-clad structural bays, and recessed balconies.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban mixed-use vernacular
- Program
- Mixed-use residential and retail development
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture