Canopy Cottages in Redmond Washington by Toll Brothers
A suburban cottage cluster precedent demonstrating how tight gabled massing and white board-and-batten siding frame a shared central green courtyard.
- What we like about this project
- Individual detached homes are arranged closely enough to feel like a unified compound centered on a shared lawn.
Materials
- wood
- fiber-cement-siding
- glass
- asphalt-shingle
- concrete-paver
Visual identifiers
- shared-courtyard
- board-and-batten
- gabled-roof
- pocket-neighborhood
Style tags
- modern-agrarian
- suburban
- residential
Visual tags
- co-housing
- suburban
- residential-cluster
- pocket-neighborhood
- shared-green
- Geometry
- Symmetrical cluster of gabled cottage volumes flanking a central rectangular lawn and paved courtyard sequence.
- Facade system
- White vertical board-and-batten siding with black-framed windows and dark shingle roofs.
- Structural guess
- Wood-frame residential construction.
- Spatial scale
- Low-rise residential cottage scale, two stories max, intimate courtyard enclosure.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting clean shadows across the gabled roofs and central lawn.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, community-oriented neighborhood atmosphere under clear daylight.
- Environmental context
- Suburban pocket neighborhood surrounded by mature evergreen trees in the Pacific Northwest.
- Spatial experience
- Entry leads from an elevated viewing platform into a shared courtyard framed tightly by gabled residential facades.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating gabled roof profiles and vertical board siding create a unified rhythm across multiple detached homes.
- Style reading
- Modern agrarian cottage cluster
- Program
- Residential cottage housing cluster
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- wood, fiber-cement-siding, glass, asphalt-shingle, concrete-paver
- Visual identifiers
- shared-courtyard, board-and-batten, gabled-roof, pocket-neighborhood
- Style tags
- modern-agrarian, suburban, residential
- Visual tags
- co-housing, suburban, residential-cluster, pocket-neighborhood, shared-green
- Geometry
- Symmetrical cluster of gabled cottage volumes flanking a central rectangular lawn and paved courtyard sequence.
- Facade system
- White vertical board-and-batten siding with black-framed windows and dark shingle roofs.
- Structural guess
- Wood-frame residential construction.
- Spatial scale
- Low-rise residential cottage scale, two stories max, intimate courtyard enclosure.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting clean shadows across the gabled roofs and central lawn.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, community-oriented neighborhood atmosphere under clear daylight.
- Environmental context
- Suburban pocket neighborhood surrounded by mature evergreen trees in the Pacific Northwest.
- Spatial experience
- Entry leads from an elevated viewing platform into a shared courtyard framed tightly by gabled residential facades.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating gabled roof profiles and vertical board siding create a unified rhythm across multiple detached homes.
- Style reading
- Modern agrarian cottage cluster
- Program
- Residential cottage housing cluster
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture