Dolphin Square
An exterior facade precedent by Mailen Design featuring a layered material palette of textured yellow brick, stone bands, and upper metal cladding.
- What we like about this project
- Decorative corbelled or textured brick band separating the upper and lower brick tiers.
Materials
- yellow-brick
- stone
- bronze-metal
- glass
Visual identifiers
- yellow-brick
- bronze-metal-cladding
- punched-windows
- ground-floor-glazing
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- residential
Visual tags
- multi-material
- residential-facade
- contemporary-vernacular
- textural-brickwork
- Geometry
- Stacked volumetric composition shifting from large expanses of structural glass at the ground level to patterned yellow brickwork and vertical metal panels above.
- Facade system
- Multi-material rainscreen and masonry veneer over structural backing with timber-framed or metal-framed glazing.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry or concrete frame with steel composite supports.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story residential scale featuring tall ground-floor sliding glass doors and proportioned upper windows.
- Lighting
- Soft, even daylight casting gentle shadows across the facade relief and brick coursing.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet and composed, balancing transparent openness below with solid textural weight above.
- Environmental context
- Urban residential setting with mature tree foliage framing the upper left foreground.
- Spatial experience
- Grounded by open transparent glazing on the ground floor, the facade transitions upwards into more opaque, textured masonry and refined metal cladding.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical alignment of upper punched windows contrasting with wide horizontal spans of ground-floor glazing.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual residential architecture
- Program
- Residential multi-family housing or townhouse
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- yellow-brick, stone, bronze-metal, glass
- Visual identifiers
- yellow-brick, bronze-metal-cladding, punched-windows, ground-floor-glazing
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, residential
- Visual tags
- multi-material, residential-facade, contemporary-vernacular, textural-brickwork
- Geometry
- Stacked volumetric composition shifting from large expanses of structural glass at the ground level to patterned yellow brickwork and vertical metal panels above.
- Facade system
- Multi-material rainscreen and masonry veneer over structural backing with timber-framed or metal-framed glazing.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry or concrete frame with steel composite supports.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story residential scale featuring tall ground-floor sliding glass doors and proportioned upper windows.
- Lighting
- Soft, even daylight casting gentle shadows across the facade relief and brick coursing.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet and composed, balancing transparent openness below with solid textural weight above.
- Environmental context
- Urban residential setting with mature tree foliage framing the upper left foreground.
- Spatial experience
- Grounded by open transparent glazing on the ground floor, the facade transitions upwards into more opaque, textured masonry and refined metal cladding.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical alignment of upper punched windows contrasting with wide horizontal spans of ground-floor glazing.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual residential architecture
- Program
- Residential multi-family housing or townhouse
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture