Cougar Creek Renovation
An exterior residential renovation precedent showcasing how to integrate sustainable upgrades like rooftop solar with community-focused landscape planning and natural play spaces.
- What we like about this project
- Extensive rooftop solar array integrated seamlessly onto traditional gable roofs.
Materials
- vinyl-siding
- brick
- asphalt-shingle
- wood
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- timber-playground
- rooftop-solar-panels
- siding-facade
- courtyard-walkways
Style tags
- contemporary
- suburban
- multifamily
Visual tags
- residential
- courtyard
- play-area
- renovation
- sustainable-community
- Geometry
- Multi-family residential blocks arranged around a central communal courtyard with looping concrete pedestrian walkways and an organic-shaped woodchip play zone.
- Facade system
- Horizontal siding over low-rise framing, punctuated by punched windows and brick base accents.
- Structural guess
- Wood-frame low-rise construction
- Spatial scale
- Low-rise multi-family residential scale, three stories high, with pedestrian pathways and benches at human walking scale.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting soft shadows across building facades and the central courtyard ground plane.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, green, and community-oriented residential environment bathed in clear daylight.
- Environmental context
- Suburban residential setting densely surrounded by tall evergreen trees and well-maintained lawns.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from above reveals a human-centric residential landscape where circulation paths encircle a natural timber play space, framed by mature evergreen trees.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating window groupings along horizontal siding bands, balanced by curving organic pathways below.
- Style reading
- Contemporary suburban multifamily renovation
- Program
- Multifamily residential community
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- vinyl-siding, brick, asphalt-shingle, wood, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- timber-playground, rooftop-solar-panels, siding-facade, courtyard-walkways
- Style tags
- contemporary, suburban, multifamily
- Visual tags
- residential, courtyard, play-area, renovation, sustainable-community
- Geometry
- Multi-family residential blocks arranged around a central communal courtyard with looping concrete pedestrian walkways and an organic-shaped woodchip play zone.
- Facade system
- Horizontal siding over low-rise framing, punctuated by punched windows and brick base accents.
- Structural guess
- Wood-frame low-rise construction
- Spatial scale
- Low-rise multi-family residential scale, three stories high, with pedestrian pathways and benches at human walking scale.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting soft shadows across building facades and the central courtyard ground plane.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, green, and community-oriented residential environment bathed in clear daylight.
- Environmental context
- Suburban residential setting densely surrounded by tall evergreen trees and well-maintained lawns.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from above reveals a human-centric residential landscape where circulation paths encircle a natural timber play space, framed by mature evergreen trees.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating window groupings along horizontal siding bands, balanced by curving organic pathways below.
- Style reading
- Contemporary suburban multifamily renovation
- Program
- Multifamily residential community
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture