This modern contemporary home by Bernbaum/Magadini is illuminated from the inside out.
A residential facade precedent demonstrating how interior illumination and layered timber screening activate a modern stone and glass composition at dusk.
- What we like about this project
- The horizontal wood screen floats in front of the lower right facade, lit from below to cast long dramatic shadows.
Materials
- stone
- glass
- timber
- steel
Visual identifiers
- illuminated-windows
- stone-massing
- timber-louver-screen
- shed-roof
Style tags
- modern-contemporary
- regional
- residential
Visual tags
- residential
- modern-contemporary
- dusk-lighting
- transparency
- suburban
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical two-story volume featuring a combination of stone massing, horizontal timber louver screens, and extensive curtain wall glazing under a low-sloped shed roof.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall glazing paired with stone veneer and horizontal wood louver screens.
- Structural guess
- Steel and wood frame with stone masonry accent walls.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale, anchored horizontally by the wide stone walls and wood screen.
- Lighting
- Twilight exterior illuminated by warm interior lighting and uplights grazing the timber screen and base plantings.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, inviting, and luminous amidst the surrounding dark landscape.
- Environmental context
- Suburban residential site heavily landscaped with mature trees and a manicured lawn.
- Spatial experience
- The approach across an open lawn leads to a transparent central entry zone that blurs indoor and outdoor boundaries.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical glazed bays contrasted with horizontal stone masses and linear wood slat screening.
- Style reading
- Modern regional contemporary residential architecture
- Program
- Single-family residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stone, glass, timber, steel
- Visual identifiers
- illuminated-windows, stone-massing, timber-louver-screen, shed-roof
- Style tags
- modern-contemporary, regional, residential
- Visual tags
- residential, modern-contemporary, dusk-lighting, transparency, suburban
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical two-story volume featuring a combination of stone massing, horizontal timber louver screens, and extensive curtain wall glazing under a low-sloped shed roof.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall glazing paired with stone veneer and horizontal wood louver screens.
- Structural guess
- Steel and wood frame with stone masonry accent walls.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale, anchored horizontally by the wide stone walls and wood screen.
- Lighting
- Twilight exterior illuminated by warm interior lighting and uplights grazing the timber screen and base plantings.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, inviting, and luminous amidst the surrounding dark landscape.
- Environmental context
- Suburban residential site heavily landscaped with mature trees and a manicured lawn.
- Spatial experience
- The approach across an open lawn leads to a transparent central entry zone that blurs indoor and outdoor boundaries.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical glazed bays contrasted with horizontal stone masses and linear wood slat screening.
- Style reading
- Modern regional contemporary residential architecture
- Program
- Single-family residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture