9298 Alden Dr. affordable housing
A contemporary multi-family residential exterior demonstrating how simple white massing can be enlivened through colored, angled window reveals.
- What we like about this project
- The ground floor is partially open or recessed on pilotis, floating the heavy white volume above the street edge.
Materials
- stucco
- glass
- metal
Visual identifiers
- colored-reveals
- punched-windows
- white-stucco
- corner-massing
Style tags
- contemporary
- rationalist
- color-blocked
Visual tags
- affordable-housing
- multi-family
- punched-facade
- color-accent
- contemporary-residential
- Geometry
- L-shaped orthogonal massing with regular grid-aligned window openings featuring angled, colored reveals.
- Facade system
- Stucco-clad exterior insulation and finish system (EIFS) with recessed punched windows.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame or wood-frame podium construction
- Spatial scale
- Four-story residential scale, easily comprehended against human figures and automobiles.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight creating deep shadows in the angled window reveals and underneath the elevated ground floor.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, bright, and cheerful atmosphere driven by crisp white surfaces and primary color highlights.
- Environmental context
- Suburban street frontage with mature trees, pedestrian sidewalk, and parked cars.
- Spatial experience
- The street-facing facade presents a clean monolithic white volume that is dynamically punctuated by alternating colorful reveals.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict grid layout varied by alternating warm-toned panels (red and orange) within the window reveals.
- Style reading
- Contemporary residential rationalism with color-blocked accents
- Program
- Affordable multi-family housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stucco, glass, metal
- Visual identifiers
- colored-reveals, punched-windows, white-stucco, corner-massing
- Style tags
- contemporary, rationalist, color-blocked
- Visual tags
- affordable-housing, multi-family, punched-facade, color-accent, contemporary-residential
- Geometry
- L-shaped orthogonal massing with regular grid-aligned window openings featuring angled, colored reveals.
- Facade system
- Stucco-clad exterior insulation and finish system (EIFS) with recessed punched windows.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame or wood-frame podium construction
- Spatial scale
- Four-story residential scale, easily comprehended against human figures and automobiles.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight creating deep shadows in the angled window reveals and underneath the elevated ground floor.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, bright, and cheerful atmosphere driven by crisp white surfaces and primary color highlights.
- Environmental context
- Suburban street frontage with mature trees, pedestrian sidewalk, and parked cars.
- Spatial experience
- The street-facing facade presents a clean monolithic white volume that is dynamically punctuated by alternating colorful reveals.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict grid layout varied by alternating warm-toned panels (red and orange) within the window reveals.
- Style reading
- Contemporary residential rationalism with color-blocked accents
- Program
- Affordable multi-family housing
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture