Single-story timber cabin with a generous wraparound veranda and
A single-story rural residence featuring a rhythmic timber colonnade and deep veranda, ideal for precedents exploring sheltered outdoor thresholds.
- What we like about this project
- The slender proportions of the porch columns lend a delicate, screen-like lightness to the heavy timber mass.
Materials
- timber
- glass
Visual identifiers
- timber-colonnade
- wraparound-veranda
- horizontal-timber-cladding
- single-story
Style tags
- contemporary
- regionalist
- minimal-traditional
Visual tags
- vernacular-modern
- timber-frame
- porch
- rural-retreat
- horizontal-mass
- Geometry
- Low-slung single-story horizontal bar with an evenly-spaced colonnade forming a deep covered veranda across the primary elevation.
- Facade system
- Exposed wood post-and-beam veranda structure framing horizontal timber wall cladding and glazed doors.
- Structural guess
- Light wood-frame construction with post-and-beam exterior porch structure.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story residential scale, emphasized by the repeating vertical rhythm of the slender columns.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffuse daylight under an open sky, casting gentle, uniform light across the timber facade.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, quiet, and grounded within its natural clearing.
- Environmental context
- Rural clearing surrounded by mature deciduous and evergreen trees, with an open grassy lawn foreground.
- Spatial experience
- The deep veranda acts as an intermediate threshold mediating between the open lawn and the interior living spaces.
- Composition rhythm
- Strictly symmetrical or repetitive bay spacing defined by slender wooden columns across the long elevation.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regionalist timber architecture
- Program
- Rural residential weekend retreat
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, glass
- Visual identifiers
- timber-colonnade, wraparound-veranda, horizontal-timber-cladding, single-story
- Style tags
- contemporary, regionalist, minimal-traditional
- Visual tags
- vernacular-modern, timber-frame, porch, rural-retreat, horizontal-mass
- Geometry
- Low-slung single-story horizontal bar with an evenly-spaced colonnade forming a deep covered veranda across the primary elevation.
- Facade system
- Exposed wood post-and-beam veranda structure framing horizontal timber wall cladding and glazed doors.
- Structural guess
- Light wood-frame construction with post-and-beam exterior porch structure.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story residential scale, emphasized by the repeating vertical rhythm of the slender columns.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffuse daylight under an open sky, casting gentle, uniform light across the timber facade.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, quiet, and grounded within its natural clearing.
- Environmental context
- Rural clearing surrounded by mature deciduous and evergreen trees, with an open grassy lawn foreground.
- Spatial experience
- The deep veranda acts as an intermediate threshold mediating between the open lawn and the interior living spaces.
- Composition rhythm
- Strictly symmetrical or repetitive bay spacing defined by slender wooden columns across the long elevation.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regionalist timber architecture
- Program
- Rural residential weekend retreat
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture