Little Round Top Passive House
A single-story residential facade precedent utilizing vertical timber cladding, deeply carved window reveals, and a naturalized meadow approach for a passive house design.
- What we like about this project
- Chamfered reveals carved directly out of the flat timber wall plane to frame the recessed vertical windows.
Materials
- timber
- gravel
- glass
- native-grasses
Visual identifiers
- vertical-timber-cladding
- recessed-entry
- carved-window-reveals
- gravel-path
Style tags
- contemporary
- minimalist
- sustainable
- rustic-modern
Visual tags
- passive-house
- rural-residential
- wood-facade
- natural-landscaping
- symmetrical
- Geometry
- Symmetrical horizontal single-story massing with vertical timber board cladding and carved reveals leading to recessed windows and central entry.
- Facade system
- Vertical timber board rainscreen with folded reveals at openings.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame or light gauge steel framing behind timber rainscreen.
- Spatial scale
- Intimate single-story residential scale, framing a human-height entry sequence.
- Lighting
- Soft, low-angle sunlight casting diagonal shadows across the vertical timber facade from nearby trees.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, rustic stillness integrated into an overgrown meadow setting.
- Environmental context
- Rural or woodland site surrounded by mature trees and unmanicured native meadow planting.
- Spatial experience
- Approached via a winding gravel path through tall meadow grasses, arriving at a deeply recessed central timber entry door.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict symmetrical composition with vertical wooden board joints establishing a steady rhythmic field.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rural minimalist architecture
- Program
- Single-family passive house residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, gravel, glass, native-grasses
- Visual identifiers
- vertical-timber-cladding, recessed-entry, carved-window-reveals, gravel-path
- Style tags
- contemporary, minimalist, sustainable, rustic-modern
- Visual tags
- passive-house, rural-residential, wood-facade, natural-landscaping, symmetrical
- Geometry
- Symmetrical horizontal single-story massing with vertical timber board cladding and carved reveals leading to recessed windows and central entry.
- Facade system
- Vertical timber board rainscreen with folded reveals at openings.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame or light gauge steel framing behind timber rainscreen.
- Spatial scale
- Intimate single-story residential scale, framing a human-height entry sequence.
- Lighting
- Soft, low-angle sunlight casting diagonal shadows across the vertical timber facade from nearby trees.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, rustic stillness integrated into an overgrown meadow setting.
- Environmental context
- Rural or woodland site surrounded by mature trees and unmanicured native meadow planting.
- Spatial experience
- Approached via a winding gravel path through tall meadow grasses, arriving at a deeply recessed central timber entry door.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict symmetrical composition with vertical wooden board joints establishing a steady rhythmic field.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rural minimalist architecture
- Program
- Single-family passive house residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture