Moonstone
A contemporary stone home - PAD studio
An exterior facade and landscape precedent by PAD studio demonstrating how stacked stone volumes and integrated courtyard planting create a grounded residential entry sequence.
- What we like about this project
- Green roofs seamlessly cap the lower side wings, blurring the line between architecture and landscape.
Materials
- limestone
- stone-masonry
- stucco
- glass
- metal
Visual identifiers
- stone-masonry
- paved-walkway
- courtyard-planting
- recessed-glazing
Style tags
- contemporary
- modernist
- vernacular
Visual tags
- residential
- stone-cladding
- landscape-integration
- contemporary-vernacular
- courtyard
- Geometry
- Low-slung rectilinear stone volumes organized around a central axial paved entry path and planted courtyards.
- Facade system
- Coursed ashlar stone masonry combined with smooth stucco upper volumes and large glazed openings.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry walls supporting concrete floor slabs and steel framing at glazed bridges.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential massing scaled to domestic living and integrated into garden surroundings.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting crisp architectural shadows against light stone walls under a clear blue sky.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, grounded, and harmonized with the surrounding natural greenery and stone textures.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or rural property surrounded by mature trees and designed landscape beds.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching along a framed stone walkway, the layered volumes progressively reveal courtyard plantings and glazed connections.
- Composition rhythm
- Alternating solid stone masses and glass connectors create a rhythmic, modulated frontage.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regional modernist residential architecture
- Program
- Single-family residential home
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- limestone, stone-masonry, stucco, glass, metal
- Visual identifiers
- stone-masonry, paved-walkway, courtyard-planting, recessed-glazing
- Style tags
- contemporary, modernist, vernacular
- Visual tags
- residential, stone-cladding, landscape-integration, contemporary-vernacular, courtyard
- Geometry
- Low-slung rectilinear stone volumes organized around a central axial paved entry path and planted courtyards.
- Facade system
- Coursed ashlar stone masonry combined with smooth stucco upper volumes and large glazed openings.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry walls supporting concrete floor slabs and steel framing at glazed bridges.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential massing scaled to domestic living and integrated into garden surroundings.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting crisp architectural shadows against light stone walls under a clear blue sky.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, grounded, and harmonized with the surrounding natural greenery and stone textures.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or rural property surrounded by mature trees and designed landscape beds.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching along a framed stone walkway, the layered volumes progressively reveal courtyard plantings and glazed connections.
- Composition rhythm
- Alternating solid stone masses and glass connectors create a rhythmic, modulated frontage.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regional modernist residential architecture
- Program
- Single-family residential home
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture