Red Coach Lane
An exterior residential precedent demonstrating how gabled wood-clad volumes can step down a sloping, wooded site and connect via transparent glazed links.
- What we like about this project
- A glazed bridge-like link connects two distinct gabled masses across a planted terrace edge.
Materials
- wood
- glass
- stone
- standing-seam-metal
Visual identifiers
- wood-siding
- gabled-roof
- glass-link
- terrace
Style tags
- contemporary
- vernacular
- residential
Visual tags
- residential
- wood-clad
- sloped-site
- pavilion
- indoor-outdoor
- Geometry
- Multiple gabled volumes stepped down a sloping site, connected by a glazed interstitial link.
- Facade system
- Vertical wood board cladding with punched window openings and floor-to-ceiling glass assemblies.
- Structural guess
- Wood frame construction over concrete foundation/retaining walls.
- Spatial scale
- Domestic scale; one-to-two-story gabled residential pavilions stepping down a sloped landscape.
- Lighting
- Twilight/dusk illumination; warm interior light glowing through expansive windows and connecting links against a natural tree canopy backdrop.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and warm, with soft interior lighting contrasting against the dark twilight woods.
- Environmental context
- Wooded residential hillside site with mature deciduous trees and paved driveway below.
- Spatial experience
- Glimpses through full-height glazing and glazed links reveal interconnected living pavilions stepping with the terrain.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical wood siding matches the rhythm of tall windows and surrounding tree trunks.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regional vernacular
- Program
- Residential single-family house
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- wood, glass, stone, standing-seam-metal
- Visual identifiers
- wood-siding, gabled-roof, glass-link, terrace
- Style tags
- contemporary, vernacular, residential
- Visual tags
- residential, wood-clad, sloped-site, pavilion, indoor-outdoor
- Geometry
- Multiple gabled volumes stepped down a sloping site, connected by a glazed interstitial link.
- Facade system
- Vertical wood board cladding with punched window openings and floor-to-ceiling glass assemblies.
- Structural guess
- Wood frame construction over concrete foundation/retaining walls.
- Spatial scale
- Domestic scale; one-to-two-story gabled residential pavilions stepping down a sloped landscape.
- Lighting
- Twilight/dusk illumination; warm interior light glowing through expansive windows and connecting links against a natural tree canopy backdrop.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and warm, with soft interior lighting contrasting against the dark twilight woods.
- Environmental context
- Wooded residential hillside site with mature deciduous trees and paved driveway below.
- Spatial experience
- Glimpses through full-height glazing and glazed links reveal interconnected living pavilions stepping with the terrain.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical wood siding matches the rhythm of tall windows and surrounding tree trunks.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regional vernacular
- Program
- Residential single-family house
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture