Westlees
A rural residential vernacular project by Watershedd contrasting a traditional stone farmhouse with a brick-arched arcade wing and a modern black-clad volume.
- What we like about this project
- The stark transition from traditional warm stone and brick textures to the ultra-minimalist black outbuilding.
Materials
- stone
- brick
- clay-tile
- metal-cladding
- glass
Visual identifiers
- stone-farmhouse
- brick-arcade
- arched-openings
- black-outbuilding
- gabled-roof
Style tags
- contemporary-vernacular
- rural
- residential
Visual tags
- rural
- residential
- vernacular
- outdoor-living
- renovation
- Geometry
- Asymmetric composition pairing a gabled stone main house with a lower, expansive brick-arched loggia wing and a separate black metal-clad outbuilding.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing natural stone masonry and brickwork with arched window assemblies.
- Structural guess
- Traditional load-bearing masonry walls with timber roof framing.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale with a wide single-story wing framing an outdoor living terrace.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting soft shadows across the rural landscape and building facades.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, pastoral, and grounded in local agricultural building traditions.
- Environmental context
- Open rural landscape with dry grass meadows, scattered planting, and open sky.
- Spatial experience
- A rural farmstead layout creating a protected outdoor terrace sheltered beneath the brick arcade and gabled roof of the wing.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating rounded arch rhythm along the brick loggia contrasted with the irregular punched windows of the stone house.
- Style reading
- Contemporary vernacular rural residential
- Program
- Rural residential estate
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stone, brick, clay-tile, metal-cladding, glass
- Visual identifiers
- stone-farmhouse, brick-arcade, arched-openings, black-outbuilding, gabled-roof
- Style tags
- contemporary-vernacular, rural, residential
- Visual tags
- rural, residential, vernacular, outdoor-living, renovation
- Geometry
- Asymmetric composition pairing a gabled stone main house with a lower, expansive brick-arched loggia wing and a separate black metal-clad outbuilding.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing natural stone masonry and brickwork with arched window assemblies.
- Structural guess
- Traditional load-bearing masonry walls with timber roof framing.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale with a wide single-story wing framing an outdoor living terrace.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting soft shadows across the rural landscape and building facades.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, pastoral, and grounded in local agricultural building traditions.
- Environmental context
- Open rural landscape with dry grass meadows, scattered planting, and open sky.
- Spatial experience
- A rural farmstead layout creating a protected outdoor terrace sheltered beneath the brick arcade and gabled roof of the wing.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating rounded arch rhythm along the brick loggia contrasted with the irregular punched windows of the stone house.
- Style reading
- Contemporary vernacular rural residential
- Program
- Rural residential estate
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture