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An exterior street facade precedent featuring dark horizontal timber cladding, a sharp mono-pitch roofline, and a low ribbon window for privacy.
- What we like about this project
- The ribbon window wraps slightly around the corner joint of the timber volume.
Materials
- dark-timber
- glass
- brick
- metal-door
Visual identifiers
- dark-timber-cladding
- mono-pitch-roof
- ribbon-window
- brick-boundary-wall
Style tags
- contemporary
- minimal
- vernacular
Visual tags
- residential
- timber-cladding
- suburban-infill
- mono-pitch
- contemporary
- Geometry
- Asymmetric mono-pitched volume paired with a lower flat-roofed entryway element and a flanking brick party wall.
- Facade system
- Horizontal timber rainscreen cladding over insulated timber frame with a low strip window cutout.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame construction on concrete slab foundation.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story residential scale, human-height entry door and ribbon window.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight from the side with soft shadows cast by surrounding greenery.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, secluded, and grounded through dark charred-looking timber and clean geometric lines.
- Environmental context
- Suburban context with mature trees, paved drive, and neighboring brick and timber boundary walls.
- Spatial experience
- Approached directly from an asphalt turnaround, the dark timber volume presents a low, protective profile with a single ribbon window.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong horizontal board lines contrasted by the sharp diagonal rake of the roof parapet.
- Style reading
- Contemporary vernacular residential
- Program
- Single-family residential dwelling
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- dark-timber, glass, brick, metal-door
- Visual identifiers
- dark-timber-cladding, mono-pitch-roof, ribbon-window, brick-boundary-wall
- Style tags
- contemporary, minimal, vernacular
- Visual tags
- residential, timber-cladding, suburban-infill, mono-pitch, contemporary
- Geometry
- Asymmetric mono-pitched volume paired with a lower flat-roofed entryway element and a flanking brick party wall.
- Facade system
- Horizontal timber rainscreen cladding over insulated timber frame with a low strip window cutout.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame construction on concrete slab foundation.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story residential scale, human-height entry door and ribbon window.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight from the side with soft shadows cast by surrounding greenery.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, secluded, and grounded through dark charred-looking timber and clean geometric lines.
- Environmental context
- Suburban context with mature trees, paved drive, and neighboring brick and timber boundary walls.
- Spatial experience
- Approached directly from an asphalt turnaround, the dark timber volume presents a low, protective profile with a single ribbon window.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong horizontal board lines contrasted by the sharp diagonal rake of the roof parapet.
- Style reading
- Contemporary vernacular residential
- Program
- Single-family residential dwelling
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture