Oceanside Retreat - Leroy Street Studio
An oceanside residential facade precedent combining warm vertical timber, solid stone walls, and an expansive floating roof plane to mediate between landscape and interior.
- What we like about this project
- The slender profile of the massive overhead roof plane defies its apparent structural load.
Materials
- timber
- stone
- glass
- metal
Visual identifiers
- timber-cladding
- stone-pylons
- thin-roof-canopy
- horizontal-screens
Style tags
- contemporary
- modern-residential
- regionalist
Visual tags
- residential
- coastal
- modernism
- horizontal-massing
- indoor-outdoor
- Geometry
- Low-slung horizontal composition with stacked rectilinear volumes, anchored by heavy stone pylons and capped by an expansive thin-profile roof canopy.
- Facade system
- Combination of vertical timber rainscreen, glazed curtain walls, and ashlar stone cladding.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with stone bearing walls and concrete slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale, extended horizontally across the landscape.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting sharp shadows beneath deep eaves and horizontal timber slats.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and grounded, balancing natural wood warmth against crisp white planes and open sky.
- Environmental context
- Coastal site with mature trees, expansive lawns, and low grasses foregrounding the architecture.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across a manicured lawn and stone path, the facade layers open glazing, recessed timber screens, and solid stone to frame views through to the ocean.
- Composition rhythm
- Balanced asynchronous composition with vertical timber slats contrasting against solid stone blocks and horizontal roof lines.
- Style reading
- Contemporary tropical-modern residential architecture
- Program
- Luxury coastal residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, stone, glass, metal
- Visual identifiers
- timber-cladding, stone-pylons, thin-roof-canopy, horizontal-screens
- Style tags
- contemporary, modern-residential, regionalist
- Visual tags
- residential, coastal, modernism, horizontal-massing, indoor-outdoor
- Geometry
- Low-slung horizontal composition with stacked rectilinear volumes, anchored by heavy stone pylons and capped by an expansive thin-profile roof canopy.
- Facade system
- Combination of vertical timber rainscreen, glazed curtain walls, and ashlar stone cladding.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with stone bearing walls and concrete slabs.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale, extended horizontally across the landscape.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting sharp shadows beneath deep eaves and horizontal timber slats.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and grounded, balancing natural wood warmth against crisp white planes and open sky.
- Environmental context
- Coastal site with mature trees, expansive lawns, and low grasses foregrounding the architecture.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across a manicured lawn and stone path, the facade layers open glazing, recessed timber screens, and solid stone to frame views through to the ocean.
- Composition rhythm
- Balanced asynchronous composition with vertical timber slats contrasting against solid stone blocks and horizontal roof lines.
- Style reading
- Contemporary tropical-modern residential architecture
- Program
- Luxury coastal residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture