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A twilight architectural precedent showcasing how warm interior lighting and continuous clerestory bands activate a low-slung modern residential pavilion.
- What we like about this project
- The upper clerestory volume appears to float independently as a glowing lantern above the darker solid base.
Materials
- glass
- wood
- painted-metal
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- illuminated-clerestory
- glazed-corners
- horizontal-massing
- twilight-shot
Style tags
- modernist
- contemporary
- residential
Visual tags
- residential
- modernist
- evening-lighting
- wooded-setting
- transparent-envelope
- Geometry
- Low horizontal massing steps with the terrain, featuring stacked rectangular volumes and a prominent raised clerestory box above.
- Facade system
- Stick-built aluminum storefront glazing integrated with horizontal wood or composite siding panels.
- Structural guess
- Light-gauge steel or wood frame with post-and-beam support around glazed expanses.
- Spatial scale
- One to two-story residential scale, long and low-slung relative to the surrounding tree canopy.
- Lighting
- Cool twilight sky balanced by warm, intense interior electric illumination glowing through extensive glass walls and clerestories.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and luminous, contrasting cool blue twilight with warm interior hearth and task lighting.
- Environmental context
- Rural or suburban wooded site at dusk with dense mature trees framing the silhouette of the building.
- Spatial experience
- The house glows outward from deep within the landscape, presenting transparent corner glazing that connects interior rooms to the nocturnal surroundings.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window mullions punctuate horizontal wall bands, creating a steady rhythm across the illuminated facade.
- Style reading
- Mid-century modern influenced contemporary residential architecture
- Program
- Single-family residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, wood, painted-metal, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- illuminated-clerestory, glazed-corners, horizontal-massing, twilight-shot
- Style tags
- modernist, contemporary, residential
- Visual tags
- residential, modernist, evening-lighting, wooded-setting, transparent-envelope
- Geometry
- Low horizontal massing steps with the terrain, featuring stacked rectangular volumes and a prominent raised clerestory box above.
- Facade system
- Stick-built aluminum storefront glazing integrated with horizontal wood or composite siding panels.
- Structural guess
- Light-gauge steel or wood frame with post-and-beam support around glazed expanses.
- Spatial scale
- One to two-story residential scale, long and low-slung relative to the surrounding tree canopy.
- Lighting
- Cool twilight sky balanced by warm, intense interior electric illumination glowing through extensive glass walls and clerestories.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and luminous, contrasting cool blue twilight with warm interior hearth and task lighting.
- Environmental context
- Rural or suburban wooded site at dusk with dense mature trees framing the silhouette of the building.
- Spatial experience
- The house glows outward from deep within the landscape, presenting transparent corner glazing that connects interior rooms to the nocturnal surroundings.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window mullions punctuate horizontal wall bands, creating a steady rhythm across the illuminated facade.
- Style reading
- Mid-century modern influenced contemporary residential architecture
- Program
- Single-family residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture