Forest Highlands Home
Oregon
A modern two-story forest residence featuring deep horizontal overhangs, extensive glass facades, and integrated outdoor terraces that connect interior spaces directly to the landscape.
- What we like about this project
- An exterior steel stair ascends directly across the upper terrace facade, cleanly tying the lower ground level to the elevated outdoor living deck.
Materials
- dark-wood
- glass
- steel
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- deep-roof-overhang
- floor-to-ceiling-glass
- dark-wood-siding
- elevated-terrace
Style tags
- contemporary
- modernism
- regional
Visual tags
- modern-residential
- indoor-outdoor
- wood-clad
- stepped-massing
- terrace
- Geometry
- Stepped rectilinear volumes with deep horizontal roof overhangs, an elevated second-floor terrace, and a lower-level recessed patio framed by slender posts.
- Facade system
- Full-height aluminum-framed glass curtain walls paired with vertical dark-stained wood cladding panels.
- Structural guess
- Post-and-beam construction with steel or heavy timber framing supporting cantilevered roof planes and upper decks.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale featuring generous ceiling heights and wide horizontal spans.
- Lighting
- Bright, clear daylight casting soft shadows underneath deep eaves and illuminating the interior spaces through full-height glass walls.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and open, defined by warm natural wood tones and crisp shadow lines under bright forest light.
- Environmental context
- Lush woodland setting with mature trees and native grasses surrounding the terraced hillside site.
- Spatial experience
- The composition opens outward through extensive glazing, blurring indoor living areas with deep covered outdoor terraces and the surrounding forest landscape.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal stratification established by cantilevered roof planes, terrace decks, and stacked ribbon glazing balanced by vertical wood siding fins.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regional modernism
- Program
- Single-family residential home
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- dark-wood, glass, steel, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- deep-roof-overhang, floor-to-ceiling-glass, dark-wood-siding, elevated-terrace
- Style tags
- contemporary, modernism, regional
- Visual tags
- modern-residential, indoor-outdoor, wood-clad, stepped-massing, terrace
- Geometry
- Stepped rectilinear volumes with deep horizontal roof overhangs, an elevated second-floor terrace, and a lower-level recessed patio framed by slender posts.
- Facade system
- Full-height aluminum-framed glass curtain walls paired with vertical dark-stained wood cladding panels.
- Structural guess
- Post-and-beam construction with steel or heavy timber framing supporting cantilevered roof planes and upper decks.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale featuring generous ceiling heights and wide horizontal spans.
- Lighting
- Bright, clear daylight casting soft shadows underneath deep eaves and illuminating the interior spaces through full-height glass walls.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and open, defined by warm natural wood tones and crisp shadow lines under bright forest light.
- Environmental context
- Lush woodland setting with mature trees and native grasses surrounding the terraced hillside site.
- Spatial experience
- The composition opens outward through extensive glazing, blurring indoor living areas with deep covered outdoor terraces and the surrounding forest landscape.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal stratification established by cantilevered roof planes, terrace decks, and stacked ribbon glazing balanced by vertical wood siding fins.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regional modernism
- Program
- Single-family residential home
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture