Pacific Palisades, CA
A residential exterior precedent combining white painted brick on the ground level with a gabled timber-clad upper story, featuring soft integration of vines and an arched entry.
- What we like about this project
- Creeping vines growing organically across the white brick facade and framing the garage opening.
Materials
- brick
- wood
- glass
- concrete
- metal
Visual identifiers
- white-painted-brick
- vertical-wood-siding
- arched-entry
- overgrown-vines
Style tags
- modern-transitional
- residential
- coastal-contemporary
Visual tags
- residential
- suburban
- transitional
- landscaped
- facade
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical two-story volume with a lower horizontal white brick base supporting a distinct gabled upper pavilion clad in vertical wood siding.
- Facade system
- Painted brick masonry veneer at ground level combined with vertical wood siding on upper volume.
- Structural guess
- Wood frame construction with brick veneer and concrete foundation.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story single-family residential scale, intimate entry sequence.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting clear, crisp shadows across the facade and driveway under a blue sky.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, welcoming, and integrated into lush natural greenery.
- Environmental context
- Suburban residential street setting surrounded by mature trees and dense green planting.
- Spatial experience
- Approached via concrete steps through lush foliage toward a central arched courtyard gate and front door.
- Composition rhythm
- Asymmetrical balance between the heavy horizontal masonry base and the lighter vertical gabled mass above.
- Style reading
- Modern transitional residential architecture
- Program
- Single-family residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, wood, glass, concrete, metal
- Visual identifiers
- white-painted-brick, vertical-wood-siding, arched-entry, overgrown-vines
- Style tags
- modern-transitional, residential, coastal-contemporary
- Visual tags
- residential, suburban, transitional, landscaped, facade
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical two-story volume with a lower horizontal white brick base supporting a distinct gabled upper pavilion clad in vertical wood siding.
- Facade system
- Painted brick masonry veneer at ground level combined with vertical wood siding on upper volume.
- Structural guess
- Wood frame construction with brick veneer and concrete foundation.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story single-family residential scale, intimate entry sequence.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting clear, crisp shadows across the facade and driveway under a blue sky.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, welcoming, and integrated into lush natural greenery.
- Environmental context
- Suburban residential street setting surrounded by mature trees and dense green planting.
- Spatial experience
- Approached via concrete steps through lush foliage toward a central arched courtyard gate and front door.
- Composition rhythm
- Asymmetrical balance between the heavy horizontal masonry base and the lighter vertical gabled mass above.
- Style reading
- Modern transitional residential architecture
- Program
- Single-family residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture