Contemporary timber-clad gabled home with full-height glass gable and
A contemporary residential precedent combining dark vertical timber cladding with a soaring glass gable, demonstrating how to integrate pitched volumes into a sloped landscape.
- What we like about this project
- Lower level opens entirely under the elevated terrace, turning the sloped lawn into a inhabitable podium.
Materials
- timber
- glass
- standing-seam-metal
- concrete
- steel
Visual identifiers
- timber-cladding
- glass-gable
- metal-roof
- foggy-setting
- gabled-massing
Style tags
- contemporary
- alpine-vernacular
- rustic-modern
Visual tags
- contemporary-vernacular
- rural-retreat
- timber-architecture
- indoor-outdoor-connection
- foggy-atmosphere
- Geometry
- Low-slung orthogonal wing connects to a taller gabled volume, set into a sloping grassy terraced terrain.
- Facade system
- Vertical timber board-on-board siding combined with full-height structurally glazed gable curtain wall.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame superstructure over a reinforced concrete lower foundation and retaining base.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale, anchored by an elevated terrace and a lower daylight basement level.
- Lighting
- Diffused, heavy fog daylight with warm interior artificial glow bleeding through windows and lower levels.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and atmospheric, enhanced by the misty backdrop and warm interior illumination.
- Environmental context
- Rural or mountainous landscape shrouded in dense morning fog with surrounding pine trees.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the lawn reveals a dialogue between heavy vertical timber cladding and expansive transparent gable ends.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic vertical strip windows and standing seam roof lines contrast with the large transparent gable end.
- Style reading
- Contemporary alpine-vernacular residential architecture
- Program
- Residential home
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, glass, standing-seam-metal, concrete, steel
- Visual identifiers
- timber-cladding, glass-gable, metal-roof, foggy-setting, gabled-massing
- Style tags
- contemporary, alpine-vernacular, rustic-modern
- Visual tags
- contemporary-vernacular, rural-retreat, timber-architecture, indoor-outdoor-connection, foggy-atmosphere
- Geometry
- Low-slung orthogonal wing connects to a taller gabled volume, set into a sloping grassy terraced terrain.
- Facade system
- Vertical timber board-on-board siding combined with full-height structurally glazed gable curtain wall.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame superstructure over a reinforced concrete lower foundation and retaining base.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale, anchored by an elevated terrace and a lower daylight basement level.
- Lighting
- Diffused, heavy fog daylight with warm interior artificial glow bleeding through windows and lower levels.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and atmospheric, enhanced by the misty backdrop and warm interior illumination.
- Environmental context
- Rural or mountainous landscape shrouded in dense morning fog with surrounding pine trees.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the lawn reveals a dialogue between heavy vertical timber cladding and expansive transparent gable ends.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic vertical strip windows and standing seam roof lines contrast with the large transparent gable end.
- Style reading
- Contemporary alpine-vernacular residential architecture
- Program
- Residential home
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture