Battle Road West
A modernist residential facade precedent showcasing asymmetric white stucco volumes and carefully placed horizontal windows across a sprawling landscape.
- What we like about this project
- A subtle angled metal canopy and contrasting deep red window reveal break the strict white geometry near the central entrance.
Materials
- stucco
- plaster
- glass
- metal
- aluminum
Visual identifiers
- white-stucco
- asymmetric-volumes
- ribbon-windows
- horizontal-massing
Style tags
- modernist
- contemporary
- minimalist
Visual tags
- modernist
- residential
- suburban
- minimalist-stucco
- compositional
- Geometry
- An asymmetric assembly of interlocking white stucco rectangular and angled volumes, stepping horizontally across a sloping green lawn with a flat roofline.
- Facade system
- Smooth white plaster / stucco over frame or masonry backing with flush metal-trimmed window openings.
- Structural guess
- Wood or steel frame construction with masonry/stucco envelope finish.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale, stretching horizontally to merge the building mass with the wide landscape.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting crisp, short shadows under overhangs and window reveals, highlighting the bright white monolithic stucco walls.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, calm suburban serenity under bright daylight, emphasized by stark white geometric planes against dark green foliage.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or rural clearing surrounded by dense mature deciduous and evergreen trees, sitting atop an open lawn.
- Spatial experience
- The long, low-slung facade presents a continuous yet fractured sequence of horizontal bands, drawing the eye across varied window proportions set into smooth plastered masses.
- Composition rhythm
- Irregular rhythm of horizontal windows and stepped rooflines balancing a continuous horizontal ground datum.
- Style reading
- Contemporary American Modernism
- Program
- Single-family detached residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stucco, plaster, glass, metal, aluminum
- Visual identifiers
- white-stucco, asymmetric-volumes, ribbon-windows, horizontal-massing
- Style tags
- modernist, contemporary, minimalist
- Visual tags
- modernist, residential, suburban, minimalist-stucco, compositional
- Geometry
- An asymmetric assembly of interlocking white stucco rectangular and angled volumes, stepping horizontally across a sloping green lawn with a flat roofline.
- Facade system
- Smooth white plaster / stucco over frame or masonry backing with flush metal-trimmed window openings.
- Structural guess
- Wood or steel frame construction with masonry/stucco envelope finish.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale, stretching horizontally to merge the building mass with the wide landscape.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting crisp, short shadows under overhangs and window reveals, highlighting the bright white monolithic stucco walls.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, calm suburban serenity under bright daylight, emphasized by stark white geometric planes against dark green foliage.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or rural clearing surrounded by dense mature deciduous and evergreen trees, sitting atop an open lawn.
- Spatial experience
- The long, low-slung facade presents a continuous yet fractured sequence of horizontal bands, drawing the eye across varied window proportions set into smooth plastered masses.
- Composition rhythm
- Irregular rhythm of horizontal windows and stepped rooflines balancing a continuous horizontal ground datum.
- Style reading
- Contemporary American Modernism
- Program
- Single-family detached residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture