Skyridge Residence
A mountain residence precedent that balances heavy regional stacked stone with lightweight expansive glass pavilions and protective shed roofs.
- What we like about this project
- Glass railings along second-floor terraces align seamlessly with the glazing below to maximize uninterrupted views.
Materials
- stacked-stone
- glass
- dark-metal
- timber
Visual identifiers
- shed-roof
- floor-to-ceiling-glass
- stacked-stone
- deep-overhangs
- mountain-residence
Style tags
- contemporary
- regionalist
- mountain-modern
Visual tags
- contemporary-vernacular
- residential
- alpine
- indoor-outdoor
- landscape-integration
- Geometry
- Low-sloped shed roof volumes stepped across a sloping site, connected by central stone-clad masses and featuring expansive floor-to-ceiling glass openings.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall glass assemblies alternating with rustic stacked stone masonry walls.
- Structural guess
- Timber or steel frame with stone shear elements.
- Spatial scale
- Expansive two-story residential pavilion set within a wide natural landscape.
- Lighting
- Clear late-day golden hour sunlight raking across the stone facades and casting long shadows from deep roof overhangs.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and grounded, illuminated by the warm, low rays of evening sun against a rugged hillside.
- Environmental context
- Mountain meadow slope populated by wild shrubs, yellow wildflowers, and pine trees under a clear blue sky.
- Spatial experience
- Approached from a grassy hillside foreground, the residence commands the landscape with broad horizontal rooflines and transparent living pavilions.
- Composition rhythm
- Stepped horizontal volumes anchored by vertical stone piers and glazed openings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regionalist mountain architecture
- Program
- Single-family mountain residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stacked-stone, glass, dark-metal, timber
- Visual identifiers
- shed-roof, floor-to-ceiling-glass, stacked-stone, deep-overhangs, mountain-residence
- Style tags
- contemporary, regionalist, mountain-modern
- Visual tags
- contemporary-vernacular, residential, alpine, indoor-outdoor, landscape-integration
- Geometry
- Low-sloped shed roof volumes stepped across a sloping site, connected by central stone-clad masses and featuring expansive floor-to-ceiling glass openings.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall glass assemblies alternating with rustic stacked stone masonry walls.
- Structural guess
- Timber or steel frame with stone shear elements.
- Spatial scale
- Expansive two-story residential pavilion set within a wide natural landscape.
- Lighting
- Clear late-day golden hour sunlight raking across the stone facades and casting long shadows from deep roof overhangs.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and grounded, illuminated by the warm, low rays of evening sun against a rugged hillside.
- Environmental context
- Mountain meadow slope populated by wild shrubs, yellow wildflowers, and pine trees under a clear blue sky.
- Spatial experience
- Approached from a grassy hillside foreground, the residence commands the landscape with broad horizontal rooflines and transparent living pavilions.
- Composition rhythm
- Stepped horizontal volumes anchored by vertical stone piers and glazed openings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regionalist mountain architecture
- Program
- Single-family mountain residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture