Battle Road West
An exterior twilight view of Battle Road West by DREZNER Architecture, featuring offset massing, strip windows, and a prominent ground-level carport.
- What we like about this project
- A large deciduous tree bisects the primary view of the entrance facade.
Materials
- stucco
- glass
- metal
- gravel
Visual identifiers
- ribbon-windows
- carport
- twilight-illumination
- asymmetrical-massing
Style tags
- contemporary
- modern
- residential
Visual tags
- residential
- twilight
- modernist
- bridge-structure
- gravel-drive
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical two-story rectangular volumes connected by an elevated bridging mass, creating a covered carport underneath.
- Facade system
- Stucco or smooth panel finish with recessed metal-frame ribbon and punched windows.
- Structural guess
- Steel or wood frame with large span supporting the upper volume over the carport.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale; wide ground-level carport opening.
- Lighting
- Twilight ambient sky with warm internal lighting glowing through ribbon and punched windows.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet and welcoming twilight mood framed by warm interior glows and mature trees.
- Environmental context
- Rural or wooded residential setting with mature trees and a gravel courtyard.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching across the gravel drive, the illuminated horizontal windows provide warm contrast to the heavy twilight exterior.
- Composition rhythm
- Irregular horizontal window rhythm punctuating a flat white monolithic facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary modern residential architecture
- Program
- Single-family residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stucco, glass, metal, gravel
- Visual identifiers
- ribbon-windows, carport, twilight-illumination, asymmetrical-massing
- Style tags
- contemporary, modern, residential
- Visual tags
- residential, twilight, modernist, bridge-structure, gravel-drive
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical two-story rectangular volumes connected by an elevated bridging mass, creating a covered carport underneath.
- Facade system
- Stucco or smooth panel finish with recessed metal-frame ribbon and punched windows.
- Structural guess
- Steel or wood frame with large span supporting the upper volume over the carport.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale; wide ground-level carport opening.
- Lighting
- Twilight ambient sky with warm internal lighting glowing through ribbon and punched windows.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet and welcoming twilight mood framed by warm interior glows and mature trees.
- Environmental context
- Rural or wooded residential setting with mature trees and a gravel courtyard.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching across the gravel drive, the illuminated horizontal windows provide warm contrast to the heavy twilight exterior.
- Composition rhythm
- Irregular horizontal window rhythm punctuating a flat white monolithic facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary modern residential architecture
- Program
- Single-family residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture