North Shore Meadow House
A large rural residential facade precedent combining traditional gabled forms with modern large-format glazing and shingle cladding.
- What we like about this project
- A continuous dark metal pergola anchors the lower ground-floor facade, bridging open glass bays.
Materials
- wood-shingle
- metal
- glass
- stone
Visual identifiers
- white-shingle-siding
- dark-standing-seam-roof
- extensive-glazing
- gable-roofline
Style tags
- contemporary
- vernacular
- agrarian
- residential
Visual tags
- residential
- rural
- country-house
- gabled
- warm-interior-lighting
- Geometry
- Asymmetric gable volumes linked horizontally across a wide footprint, with large glass expanses on the ground floor and dormer projections above.
- Facade system
- White wood shingle rainscreen with dark-framed window assemblies.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame construction with lateral bracing.
- Spatial scale
- Large two-story residential estate stretching horizontally across the landscape.
- Lighting
- Twilight blue-hour illumination casting warm interior glows through windows against fading daylight.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and welcoming twilight ambiance with warm light spilling onto the manicured lawn.
- Environmental context
- Set within a broad meadow surrounded by dense deciduous and evergreen trees.
- Spatial experience
- A sprawling rural residence presenting an open, inviting face toward the expansive meadow and treeline.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal massing articulated by alternating blocks of glazing and shingle-clad piers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary agrarian vernacular
- Program
- Single-family rural residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- wood-shingle, metal, glass, stone
- Visual identifiers
- white-shingle-siding, dark-standing-seam-roof, extensive-glazing, gable-roofline
- Style tags
- contemporary, vernacular, agrarian, residential
- Visual tags
- residential, rural, country-house, gabled, warm-interior-lighting
- Geometry
- Asymmetric gable volumes linked horizontally across a wide footprint, with large glass expanses on the ground floor and dormer projections above.
- Facade system
- White wood shingle rainscreen with dark-framed window assemblies.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame construction with lateral bracing.
- Spatial scale
- Large two-story residential estate stretching horizontally across the landscape.
- Lighting
- Twilight blue-hour illumination casting warm interior glows through windows against fading daylight.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and welcoming twilight ambiance with warm light spilling onto the manicured lawn.
- Environmental context
- Set within a broad meadow surrounded by dense deciduous and evergreen trees.
- Spatial experience
- A sprawling rural residence presenting an open, inviting face toward the expansive meadow and treeline.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal massing articulated by alternating blocks of glazing and shingle-clad piers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary agrarian vernacular
- Program
- Single-family rural residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture