How we made No Ordinary House
A residential garden elevation showing a contemporary rear extension that seamlessly connects indoor living areas with landscaped outdoor spaces through floor-to-ceiling glass.
- What we like about this project
- The upper mansard dormers align vertically with the ground-floor structural glass mullions, creating an unexpected order across mixed epochs of architectural periods.
Materials
- glass
- brick
- slate-tile
- metal
- stone
Visual identifiers
- extensive-glazing
- dark-mansard-roof
- garden-terrace
- rear-extension
Style tags
- contemporary
- residential
- modern
Visual tags
- residential
- modern-extension
- indoor-outdoor
- landscape-integration
- dusk-lighting
- Geometry
- Asymmetric multi-level rear extension combining a double-height glazed volume, flat-roofed single-story extension, and a dark mansard roof addition with tall dormers.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall glazing combined with light brickwork and dark slate or zinc mansard cladding.
- Structural guess
- Steel moment frames supporting large glass spans with traditional masonry and timber framing above.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale, extending outwards into a wide garden terrace.
- Lighting
- Dusk or twilight setting with warm interior lighting and landscape accent lights contrasting against a soft, cool evening sky.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting and warm, enhanced by the glow of interior lights spilling into the landscaped twilight garden.
- Environmental context
- Suburban residential garden setting with mature trees, lush planting beds, and neighboring houses visible in the background.
- Spatial experience
- Views extend fluidly from the landscaped garden straight through the expansive ground-floor glass walls into warmly lit interior living spaces.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical dormer windows on the upper roof counterbalanced by wide horizontal bands of glass and single-story masonry below.
- Style reading
- Contemporary residential vernacular
- Program
- Single-family residential rear extension and garden
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, brick, slate-tile, metal, stone
- Visual identifiers
- extensive-glazing, dark-mansard-roof, garden-terrace, rear-extension
- Style tags
- contemporary, residential, modern
- Visual tags
- residential, modern-extension, indoor-outdoor, landscape-integration, dusk-lighting
- Geometry
- Asymmetric multi-level rear extension combining a double-height glazed volume, flat-roofed single-story extension, and a dark mansard roof addition with tall dormers.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall glazing combined with light brickwork and dark slate or zinc mansard cladding.
- Structural guess
- Steel moment frames supporting large glass spans with traditional masonry and timber framing above.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale, extending outwards into a wide garden terrace.
- Lighting
- Dusk or twilight setting with warm interior lighting and landscape accent lights contrasting against a soft, cool evening sky.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting and warm, enhanced by the glow of interior lights spilling into the landscaped twilight garden.
- Environmental context
- Suburban residential garden setting with mature trees, lush planting beds, and neighboring houses visible in the background.
- Spatial experience
- Views extend fluidly from the landscaped garden straight through the expansive ground-floor glass walls into warmly lit interior living spaces.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical dormer windows on the upper roof counterbalanced by wide horizontal bands of glass and single-story masonry below.
- Style reading
- Contemporary residential vernacular
- Program
- Single-family residential rear extension and garden
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture