West Seattle Residence
An exterior residential patio precedent featuring a dark metal pergola, stone pavers, and a central fire pit designed for evening outdoor living.
- What we like about this project
- Organic, egg-like lounge chairs contrast sharply with the rigorous rectilinear steel pergola above.
Materials
- dark-metal
- stone-pavers
- wood-siding
- glass
- stucco
Visual identifiers
- black-metal-pergola
- fire-pit
- stone-pavers
- white-loungers
- dusk-lighting
Style tags
- contemporary
- modern
- residential
Visual tags
- residential
- outdoor-living
- patio
- dusk
- landscaped
- Geometry
- Two-story rectilinear massing with a projecting black steel pergola framing a ground-level stone patio and fire feature.
- Facade system
- Combination of dark panel cladding, horizontal wood siding, and large glass sliding doors.
- Structural guess
- Steel pergola framing attached to wood and concrete masonry residence.
- Spatial scale
- Intimate residential backyard patio scaled for outdoor seating and gathering.
- Lighting
- Dusk twilight exterior with warm interior lighting and an active fire pit casting a golden glow.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting and cozy evening ambiance created by warm interior lights and glowing fire.
- Environmental context
- Suburban backyard patio framed by dense bamboo planting at twilight.
- Spatial experience
- Transition from lawn to paved terrace anchored by an open-air fire pit under a shaded pergola structure, looking into a glazed interior living space.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical grouping of white organic loungers around a central bowl fire pit beneath a structural grid.
- Style reading
- Contemporary residential modern
- Program
- Residential backyard patio and outdoor living area
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- dark-metal, stone-pavers, wood-siding, glass, stucco
- Visual identifiers
- black-metal-pergola, fire-pit, stone-pavers, white-loungers, dusk-lighting
- Style tags
- contemporary, modern, residential
- Visual tags
- residential, outdoor-living, patio, dusk, landscaped
- Geometry
- Two-story rectilinear massing with a projecting black steel pergola framing a ground-level stone patio and fire feature.
- Facade system
- Combination of dark panel cladding, horizontal wood siding, and large glass sliding doors.
- Structural guess
- Steel pergola framing attached to wood and concrete masonry residence.
- Spatial scale
- Intimate residential backyard patio scaled for outdoor seating and gathering.
- Lighting
- Dusk twilight exterior with warm interior lighting and an active fire pit casting a golden glow.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting and cozy evening ambiance created by warm interior lights and glowing fire.
- Environmental context
- Suburban backyard patio framed by dense bamboo planting at twilight.
- Spatial experience
- Transition from lawn to paved terrace anchored by an open-air fire pit under a shaded pergola structure, looking into a glazed interior living space.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical grouping of white organic loungers around a central bowl fire pit beneath a structural grid.
- Style reading
- Contemporary residential modern
- Program
- Residential backyard patio and outdoor living area
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture