Pool Houses
A pool house exterior featuring a monolithic dry-stone retaining wall punched with precise glazing, contrasted by an expressive glazed timber-truss gable pavilion rising above the landscape.
- What we like about this project
- The transition from a solid heavy stone massing on the left to an open, glowing timber frame beneath a glass gable on the right.
Materials
- stone
- timber
- glass
- metal
Visual identifiers
- stone-wall
- punched-windows
- timber-trusses
- glazed-gable
- rural-setting
Style tags
- contemporary
- vernacular
- rustic-modern
Visual tags
- rural
- residential
- leisure
- natural-materials
- warm-interior-glow
- gable-roof
- Geometry
- Low, horizontal dry-stone masonry wall stretches across the sloping foreground, punctured by clean-lined rectangular openings and topped on the right by a glazed gabled volume revealing structural timber trusses.
- Facade system
- Dry-stone masonry base wall with flush and recessed aluminum-framed glazing and timber curtain wall gable.
- Structural guess
- Stone masonry retaining/bearing walls supporting a timber roof truss system.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story baseline massing with an elevated gabled roof volume, fitting residential or leisure scale.
- Lighting
- Twilight or overcast lighting with warm artificial interior glow highlighting the punched windows and timber truss gables against a cool dark forest backdrop.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and grounded, with warm interior light contrasting against the cool, dark woodland dusk.
- Environmental context
- A sloping rural lawn and meadow foreground backed by a dense deciduous forest.
- Spatial experience
- The composition anchors the building firmly into the sloping grassy terrain, offering framed interior vignettes through deep stone reveals while a luminous timber-roofed pavilion rises above.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal continuity of the stone wall interrupted by rhythmic vertical alignments of the punched window, vertical timber pergola fins on the left, and the triangular gable geometry on the right.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rural vernacular pavilion
- Program
- Pool house / leisure pavilion
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stone, timber, glass, metal
- Visual identifiers
- stone-wall, punched-windows, timber-trusses, glazed-gable, rural-setting
- Style tags
- contemporary, vernacular, rustic-modern
- Visual tags
- rural, residential, leisure, natural-materials, warm-interior-glow, gable-roof
- Geometry
- Low, horizontal dry-stone masonry wall stretches across the sloping foreground, punctured by clean-lined rectangular openings and topped on the right by a glazed gabled volume revealing structural timber trusses.
- Facade system
- Dry-stone masonry base wall with flush and recessed aluminum-framed glazing and timber curtain wall gable.
- Structural guess
- Stone masonry retaining/bearing walls supporting a timber roof truss system.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story baseline massing with an elevated gabled roof volume, fitting residential or leisure scale.
- Lighting
- Twilight or overcast lighting with warm artificial interior glow highlighting the punched windows and timber truss gables against a cool dark forest backdrop.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and grounded, with warm interior light contrasting against the cool, dark woodland dusk.
- Environmental context
- A sloping rural lawn and meadow foreground backed by a dense deciduous forest.
- Spatial experience
- The composition anchors the building firmly into the sloping grassy terrain, offering framed interior vignettes through deep stone reveals while a luminous timber-roofed pavilion rises above.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal continuity of the stone wall interrupted by rhythmic vertical alignments of the punched window, vertical timber pergola fins on the left, and the triangular gable geometry on the right.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rural vernacular pavilion
- Program
- Pool house / leisure pavilion
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture