A-FRAME RESIDENCE
An exterior terrace precedent showcasing dark monolithic hardscape integration with a forest setting, featuring sunken architectural fire features and low-profile lounge furniture.
- What we like about this project
- Sunken linear fire pit and sunken reflection pool carve clean geometric voids out of the solid stone terrace.
Materials
- dark-stone-pavers
- glass
- metal
- dark-wood
Visual identifiers
- dark-terrace
- sunken-fire-pit
- pine-forest-backdrop
- low-loungers
Style tags
- contemporary
- minimalist
- alpine-modern
Visual tags
- residential
- outdoor-living
- terrace
- modern-architecture
- landscape-integration
- Geometry
- Low-slung horizontal building mass opens onto an expansive dark stone terrace with integrated sunken seating and linear pool elements.
- Facade system
- Dark metal or painted timber framed glass curtain wall opening directly to the deck.
- Structural guess
- Post-and-beam construction with cantilevered roof overhang.
- Spatial scale
- Expansive single-story residential terrace and deck at human scale.
- Lighting
- Backlit by low evening sun filtering through pine trees, casting long shadows across the dark paved terrace.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet, dusk-like solitude under a backlit canopy of pines.
- Environmental context
- Forest clearing with mature evergreen trees and dense surrounding underbrush.
- Spatial experience
- The terrace extends the interior living outwards, transitioning from covered threshold to open-air lounging surrounded by tall pine trees.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal layers of roofline, terrace paving, and sunken geometric pits create a calm sectional rhythm.
- Style reading
- Contemporary minimalist alpine residence
- Program
- Residential outdoor terrace and pool deck
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- dark-stone-pavers, glass, metal, dark-wood
- Visual identifiers
- dark-terrace, sunken-fire-pit, pine-forest-backdrop, low-loungers
- Style tags
- contemporary, minimalist, alpine-modern
- Visual tags
- residential, outdoor-living, terrace, modern-architecture, landscape-integration
- Geometry
- Low-slung horizontal building mass opens onto an expansive dark stone terrace with integrated sunken seating and linear pool elements.
- Facade system
- Dark metal or painted timber framed glass curtain wall opening directly to the deck.
- Structural guess
- Post-and-beam construction with cantilevered roof overhang.
- Spatial scale
- Expansive single-story residential terrace and deck at human scale.
- Lighting
- Backlit by low evening sun filtering through pine trees, casting long shadows across the dark paved terrace.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet, dusk-like solitude under a backlit canopy of pines.
- Environmental context
- Forest clearing with mature evergreen trees and dense surrounding underbrush.
- Spatial experience
- The terrace extends the interior living outwards, transitioning from covered threshold to open-air lounging surrounded by tall pine trees.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal layers of roofline, terrace paving, and sunken geometric pits create a calm sectional rhythm.
- Style reading
- Contemporary minimalist alpine residence
- Program
- Residential outdoor terrace and pool deck
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture