Encino Modern Home
An exterior front elevation precedent for low-slung, single-story modern residential architecture featuring crisp plaster massing, large glass openings, and integrated landscape beds.
- What we like about this project
- The front door opens outward at an angle, immediately revealing a layered view through the house to the rear courtyard.
Materials
- stucco
- glass
- wood
- concrete
- aluminum
Visual identifiers
- flat-roof
- stucco-walls
- floor-to-ceiling-glass
- wooden-front-door
Style tags
- modern
- contemporary
- minimalist
Visual tags
- modern
- residential
- single-story
- minimalist
- suburban
- Geometry
- Low-slung, single-story rectilinear volumes featuring a slightly elevated central entry porch and flat rooflines with overhanging eaves.
- Facade system
- Smooth light-colored render/stucco finish over structural framing with black-framed aluminum glazing systems.
- Structural guess
- Wood-frame or light-gauge steel construction with concrete slab foundation.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scale single-family residence, approximately one story in height.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused overcast daylight creating gentle shadows beneath roof overhangs and within deep window reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, orderly, and understated residential tranquility.
- Environmental context
- Suburban residential plot featuring manicured lawn, architectural grasses, small trees, and concrete paver pathways.
- Spatial experience
- The approach frames a balanced, symmetrical composition of solid planes and transparent glass punctures that visually connect the front lawn directly to interior spaces.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical central composition flanked by low planar walls and rhythmic vertical window alignments.
- Style reading
- Contemporary modern residential design
- Program
- Single-family residential home
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stucco, glass, wood, concrete, aluminum
- Visual identifiers
- flat-roof, stucco-walls, floor-to-ceiling-glass, wooden-front-door
- Style tags
- modern, contemporary, minimalist
- Visual tags
- modern, residential, single-story, minimalist, suburban
- Geometry
- Low-slung, single-story rectilinear volumes featuring a slightly elevated central entry porch and flat rooflines with overhanging eaves.
- Facade system
- Smooth light-colored render/stucco finish over structural framing with black-framed aluminum glazing systems.
- Structural guess
- Wood-frame or light-gauge steel construction with concrete slab foundation.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scale single-family residence, approximately one story in height.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused overcast daylight creating gentle shadows beneath roof overhangs and within deep window reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, orderly, and understated residential tranquility.
- Environmental context
- Suburban residential plot featuring manicured lawn, architectural grasses, small trees, and concrete paver pathways.
- Spatial experience
- The approach frames a balanced, symmetrical composition of solid planes and transparent glass punctures that visually connect the front lawn directly to interior spaces.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical central composition flanked by low planar walls and rhythmic vertical window alignments.
- Style reading
- Contemporary modern residential design
- Program
- Single-family residential home
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture