On Nantucket Harbor — Robert Dean Architects
A coastal shingle-style residence set behind native dunes, featuring classic gabled volumes and a deep wrap-around porch that negotiates the threshold between wild landscape and domestic space.
- What we like about this project
- The prominent brick chimney rising beside the central gable adds a traditional masonry anchor to the lightweight shingle envelope.
Materials
- cedar-shingles
- wood-trim
- brick
- glass
Visual identifiers
- cedar-shingle-siding
- wrap-around-porch
- gabled-roofline
- coastal-dune-setting
Style tags
- traditional
- shingle-style
- vernacular
- coastal
Visual tags
- residential
- coastal
- traditional
- shingle-style
- gabled
- porch
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical gabled massing featuring a prominent central gable and lower flanking wings, anchored by a deep single-story wrap-around porch along the ground level.
- Facade system
- Woven cedar shingle rainscreen with white-painted wood trim, multi-pane double-hung windows, and a deep columned porch.
- Structural guess
- Wood-frame construction on continuous foundation.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale, sprawling horizontally behind an expansive natural dune foreground.
- Lighting
- Warm, low-angle golden hour sunlight raking across the facade from the side, casting soft shadows under the deep porch overhangs.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and grounded, bathed in the warm, quiet light of a coastal evening.
- Environmental context
- Coastal dune landscape with dense, low native brush in the foreground and clear blue sky above.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across low coastal vegetation, the house presents a layered depth moving from wild dunes to a sheltered, columned porch and finally into deep interior volumes.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating white columns on the porch establish a steady horizontal rhythm beneath the varied vertical gable peaks.
- Style reading
- Traditional coastal shingle style with refined vernacular details
- Program
- Single-family coastal residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- cedar-shingles, wood-trim, brick, glass
- Visual identifiers
- cedar-shingle-siding, wrap-around-porch, gabled-roofline, coastal-dune-setting
- Style tags
- traditional, shingle-style, vernacular, coastal
- Visual tags
- residential, coastal, traditional, shingle-style, gabled, porch
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical gabled massing featuring a prominent central gable and lower flanking wings, anchored by a deep single-story wrap-around porch along the ground level.
- Facade system
- Woven cedar shingle rainscreen with white-painted wood trim, multi-pane double-hung windows, and a deep columned porch.
- Structural guess
- Wood-frame construction on continuous foundation.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale, sprawling horizontally behind an expansive natural dune foreground.
- Lighting
- Warm, low-angle golden hour sunlight raking across the facade from the side, casting soft shadows under the deep porch overhangs.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and grounded, bathed in the warm, quiet light of a coastal evening.
- Environmental context
- Coastal dune landscape with dense, low native brush in the foreground and clear blue sky above.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across low coastal vegetation, the house presents a layered depth moving from wild dunes to a sheltered, columned porch and finally into deep interior volumes.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating white columns on the porch establish a steady horizontal rhythm beneath the varied vertical gable peaks.
- Style reading
- Traditional coastal shingle style with refined vernacular details
- Program
- Single-family coastal residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture