On Nantucket Harbor — Robert Dean Architects
A quintessential coastal shingle-style estate featuring a wrap-around porch, gabled roof volumes, and a meandering gravel approach overlooking the harbor.
Materials
- cedar-shingles
- wood
- glass
- gravel
Visual identifiers
- cedar-shingle-siding
- wrap-around-porch
- gabled-roofline
- gravel-driveway
Style tags
- traditional
- shingle-style
- coastal
- residential
Visual tags
- coastal
- shingle-style
- residential
- waterfront
- traditional
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical gabled massing with a prominent central roof volume, deep wrap-around front porch, and aligned double-hung windows across the facade.
- Facade system
- Cedar shingle siding with wood-trimmed double-hung windows and a covered wooden porch.
- Structural guess
- Wood-frame construction on traditional foundations.
- Spatial scale
- Large two-story residential estate viewed from a distance along the entry approach.
- Lighting
- Golden hour sun catching the upper cedar shingles and gables, casting long shadows with a clear blue sky and harbor backdrop.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and established evening waterfront ambiance.
- Environmental context
- Coastal harbor landscape with rolling gravel driveways, sculpted lawns, and native grasses framing the waterfront setting.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching along a sweeping gravel drive through manicured lawn and native planting leads directly to the welcoming deep-shaded front porch.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical window groupings anchored beneath asymmetric gables and a continuous horizontal porch line.
- Style reading
- Traditional coastal shingle style
- Program
- Coastal residential estate
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- cedar-shingles, wood, glass, gravel
- Visual identifiers
- cedar-shingle-siding, wrap-around-porch, gabled-roofline, gravel-driveway
- Style tags
- traditional, shingle-style, coastal, residential
- Visual tags
- coastal, shingle-style, residential, waterfront, traditional
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical gabled massing with a prominent central roof volume, deep wrap-around front porch, and aligned double-hung windows across the facade.
- Facade system
- Cedar shingle siding with wood-trimmed double-hung windows and a covered wooden porch.
- Structural guess
- Wood-frame construction on traditional foundations.
- Spatial scale
- Large two-story residential estate viewed from a distance along the entry approach.
- Lighting
- Golden hour sun catching the upper cedar shingles and gables, casting long shadows with a clear blue sky and harbor backdrop.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and established evening waterfront ambiance.
- Environmental context
- Coastal harbor landscape with rolling gravel driveways, sculpted lawns, and native grasses framing the waterfront setting.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching along a sweeping gravel drive through manicured lawn and native planting leads directly to the welcoming deep-shaded front porch.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical window groupings anchored beneath asymmetric gables and a continuous horizontal porch line.
- Style reading
- Traditional coastal shingle style
- Program
- Coastal residential estate
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture