Mediterranean Custom Home
A detailed close-up of a custom timber pergola attached to a stone facade, demonstrating integrated lighting and bracketed overhang design for residential entries.
- What we like about this project
- Delicate climbing vines weave directly through the heavy timber lattice grid.
Materials
- timber
- stone
- clay-tile
- glass
- metal
Visual identifiers
- timber-pergola
- stone-wall
- clay-tile-roof
- hanging-lantern
Style tags
- craftsman
- mediterranean
- traditional
Visual tags
- detail
- residential
- pergola
- craftsmanship
- exterior-lighting
- Geometry
- An orthogonal timber pergola extends out from a masonry wall, angled brackets supporting cantilevered beams beneath a clay-tiled overhanging roof.
- Facade system
- Stone masonry wall with protruding timber trellis and bracket system.
- Structural guess
- Timber cantilevered beams with diagonal knee braces anchored to structural masonry wall.
- Spatial scale
- Intimate human-scale architectural detail, focusing on a building entryway or porch canopy.
- Lighting
- Warm artificial light glows from a hanging lantern and wall sconce against contrasting direct sunlight and deep shadows.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, textural, and intimate with strong contrast between rough stone, smooth timber, and glowing light fixtures.
- Environmental context
- Exterior residential wall condition with climbing vegetation.
- Spatial experience
- The close detail emphasizes the transition between heavy roof overhangs, delicate framing members, and integrated lighting at human entry scale.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating parallel wooden rafters intersect with cross-members, creating a rhythmic grid overhead.
- Style reading
- Craftsman-influenced Mediterranean residential detail
- Program
- Residential exterior entryway or patio
- Perspective
- Detail Close-up
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, stone, clay-tile, glass, metal
- Visual identifiers
- timber-pergola, stone-wall, clay-tile-roof, hanging-lantern
- Style tags
- craftsman, mediterranean, traditional
- Visual tags
- detail, residential, pergola, craftsmanship, exterior-lighting
- Geometry
- An orthogonal timber pergola extends out from a masonry wall, angled brackets supporting cantilevered beams beneath a clay-tiled overhanging roof.
- Facade system
- Stone masonry wall with protruding timber trellis and bracket system.
- Structural guess
- Timber cantilevered beams with diagonal knee braces anchored to structural masonry wall.
- Spatial scale
- Intimate human-scale architectural detail, focusing on a building entryway or porch canopy.
- Lighting
- Warm artificial light glows from a hanging lantern and wall sconce against contrasting direct sunlight and deep shadows.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, textural, and intimate with strong contrast between rough stone, smooth timber, and glowing light fixtures.
- Environmental context
- Exterior residential wall condition with climbing vegetation.
- Spatial experience
- The close detail emphasizes the transition between heavy roof overhangs, delicate framing members, and integrated lighting at human entry scale.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating parallel wooden rafters intersect with cross-members, creating a rhythmic grid overhead.
- Style reading
- Craftsman-influenced Mediterranean residential detail
- Program
- Residential exterior entryway or patio
- Perspective
- Detail Close-up
- Discipline
- architecture