Multifamily residential facade with white brick
An exterior facade precedent for multifamily housing, demonstrating a clean white masonry grid balanced with deep wood-lined recessed balconies and large punched windows.
- What we like about this project
- Warm timber lining inside the deep masonry reveals creates an unexpected contrast with the cool white brick.
Materials
- white-brick
- glass
- metal
- timber
Visual identifiers
- white-brick
- recessed-balconies
- grid-facade
- timber-soffit
- large-windows
Style tags
- contemporary
- rationalist
- residential
- minimalist
Visual tags
- residential
- masonry
- facade-rhythm
- urban-infill
- contemporary
- Geometry
- Strict orthogonal grid featuring alternating stacked recessed loggias, vertical window bands, and flush brick planes across a multi-story facade.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or veneer white brick masonry wall system with punched window openings and inset balconies.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame or masonry bearing wall with slab balconies.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story residential apartment block viewed directly from across the street at human scale.
- Lighting
- Direct bright sunlight casting sharp, clean shadows inside the recessed balcony soffits and deep window reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, orderly, and bright with a warm contrast provided by timber balcony soffits.
- Environmental context
- Urban sidewalk context with mature trees and a pedestrian walking past the glazed entrance portal.
- Spatial experience
- The flat elevation reads rhythmically from the street, providing recessed protected outdoor extensions that break the heavy masonry mass.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical and horizontal structural grid with alternating rhythm between solid recessed balconies and glazed openings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban residential rationalism
- Program
- Multifamily residential apartment building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- white-brick, glass, metal, timber
- Visual identifiers
- white-brick, recessed-balconies, grid-facade, timber-soffit, large-windows
- Style tags
- contemporary, rationalist, residential, minimalist
- Visual tags
- residential, masonry, facade-rhythm, urban-infill, contemporary
- Geometry
- Strict orthogonal grid featuring alternating stacked recessed loggias, vertical window bands, and flush brick planes across a multi-story facade.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or veneer white brick masonry wall system with punched window openings and inset balconies.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame or masonry bearing wall with slab balconies.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story residential apartment block viewed directly from across the street at human scale.
- Lighting
- Direct bright sunlight casting sharp, clean shadows inside the recessed balcony soffits and deep window reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Crisp, orderly, and bright with a warm contrast provided by timber balcony soffits.
- Environmental context
- Urban sidewalk context with mature trees and a pedestrian walking past the glazed entrance portal.
- Spatial experience
- The flat elevation reads rhythmically from the street, providing recessed protected outdoor extensions that break the heavy masonry mass.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical and horizontal structural grid with alternating rhythm between solid recessed balconies and glazed openings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban residential rationalism
- Program
- Multifamily residential apartment building
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture