Architects of Storied Places
A coastal residential precedent demonstrating seamless landscape integration through an extensive green roof and rugged stone masonry built into a cliffside context.
- What we like about this project
- The native planting on the roof seamlessly continues the surrounding hillside flora, rendering the built volume nearly invisible from above.
Materials
- stone
- native-planting
- glass
- metal
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- green-roof
- stone-cladding
- cliffside-location
- ocean-view
- cantilevered-edge
Style tags
- contemporary
- tropical-modern
- contextual
Visual tags
- coastal
- green-roof
- residential
- landscape-integration
- tropical
- outdoor-living
- Geometry
- Low-slung rectilinear mass embedded into a sloping coastal site with an extensive planted green roof acting as a fifth facade.
- Facade system
- Stacked local stone masonry combined with large glass openings and trim-framed overhangs.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with stone-clad masonry load-bearing walls.
- Spatial scale
- Intimate single-story residential scale integrated directly into the natural topography.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight under a partly cloudy sky, casting sharp shadows and highlighting the texture of stone and green roof.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and breezy, bridging raw natural ocean elements with refined earth-toned architecture.
- Environmental context
- Dramatic coastal cliffside overlooking deep blue open ocean with lush native tropical vegetation.
- Spatial experience
- The approach steps down past stone retaining walls into a sheltered courtyard opening directly onto a cliffside ocean panorama.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal massing lines of the green roof fascia counterbalanced by vertical native planting and retaining walls.
- Style reading
- Tropical coastal contemporary architecture
- Program
- Coastal luxury residence
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stone, native-planting, glass, metal, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- green-roof, stone-cladding, cliffside-location, ocean-view, cantilevered-edge
- Style tags
- contemporary, tropical-modern, contextual
- Visual tags
- coastal, green-roof, residential, landscape-integration, tropical, outdoor-living
- Geometry
- Low-slung rectilinear mass embedded into a sloping coastal site with an extensive planted green roof acting as a fifth facade.
- Facade system
- Stacked local stone masonry combined with large glass openings and trim-framed overhangs.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with stone-clad masonry load-bearing walls.
- Spatial scale
- Intimate single-story residential scale integrated directly into the natural topography.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight under a partly cloudy sky, casting sharp shadows and highlighting the texture of stone and green roof.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and breezy, bridging raw natural ocean elements with refined earth-toned architecture.
- Environmental context
- Dramatic coastal cliffside overlooking deep blue open ocean with lush native tropical vegetation.
- Spatial experience
- The approach steps down past stone retaining walls into a sheltered courtyard opening directly onto a cliffside ocean panorama.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal massing lines of the green roof fascia counterbalanced by vertical native planting and retaining walls.
- Style reading
- Tropical coastal contemporary architecture
- Program
- Coastal luxury residence
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture