Leo and Jack's
A rear townhouse facade precedent showing how garden landscape and mature planting frame a traditional multi-bay brick elevation.
- What we like about this project
- The stark white modern ground floor contrast sharply against the weathered historic London stock brick above.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- stone
- timber
Visual identifiers
- brick-facade
- gabled-roofline
- garden-framing
- rear-elevation
Style tags
- traditional
- residential
- vernacular
Visual tags
- residential
- townhouse
- historic-reno
- garden-connection
- facade
- Geometry
- Symmetrical multi-bay townhouse rear elevation with triple gabled rooflines, punctuated by regularly spaced multi-pane windows.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing yellowish brick masonry with punched timber-framed windows and a modern glazed lower extension.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing brick masonry walls with timber floor diaphragms.
- Spatial scale
- Three-story residential townhouse scale, viewed from the garden level.
- Lighting
- Soft overcast daylight with even illumination across the brickwork and shadows cast by surrounding garden foliage.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and grounded, blending historic brick texture with overgrown garden greenery.
- Environmental context
- Urban residential rear garden with mature shrubs and stone paving leading to the building base.
- Spatial experience
- Approached from a sunken garden path through lush vegetation, transitioning to the glazed ground-floor opening.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window alignment across three floors beneath a repeating triple-gable roof rhythm.
- Style reading
- Traditional residential vernacular with contemporary ground-floor intervention
- Program
- Residential townhouse
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, stone, timber
- Visual identifiers
- brick-facade, gabled-roofline, garden-framing, rear-elevation
- Style tags
- traditional, residential, vernacular
- Visual tags
- residential, townhouse, historic-reno, garden-connection, facade
- Geometry
- Symmetrical multi-bay townhouse rear elevation with triple gabled rooflines, punctuated by regularly spaced multi-pane windows.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing yellowish brick masonry with punched timber-framed windows and a modern glazed lower extension.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing brick masonry walls with timber floor diaphragms.
- Spatial scale
- Three-story residential townhouse scale, viewed from the garden level.
- Lighting
- Soft overcast daylight with even illumination across the brickwork and shadows cast by surrounding garden foliage.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and grounded, blending historic brick texture with overgrown garden greenery.
- Environmental context
- Urban residential rear garden with mature shrubs and stone paving leading to the building base.
- Spatial experience
- Approached from a sunken garden path through lush vegetation, transitioning to the glazed ground-floor opening.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window alignment across three floors beneath a repeating triple-gable roof rhythm.
- Style reading
- Traditional residential vernacular with contemporary ground-floor intervention
- Program
- Residential townhouse
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture