Newport Modern
An exterior facade precedent illustrating the pairing of a rustic stone base with a refined vertical timber screen and a dramatic central framed view toward the ocean.
- What we like about this project
- The upper window band aligns flush behind the vertical timber slat screen, filtering light rhythmically.
Materials
- timber
- stone
- glass
- steel
Visual identifiers
- vertical-timber-slats
- stone-base
- central-portal
- strip-windows
- coastal-setting
Style tags
- contemporary
- coastal-modern
- regionalist
- warm-minimalism
Visual tags
- coastal
- residential
- timber-screen
- stone-masonry
- framed-view
- dusk-lighting
- Geometry
- A heavy stone and timber base supports a floating upper volume wrapped in vertical timber slats, punctuated by a central portal that frames the horizon.
- Facade system
- Vertical timber batten rainscreen over upper level; dry-stacked stone masonry at ground level.
- Structural guess
- Stone load-bearing piers at the ground level supporting a timber-framed upper volume spanning the central opening.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale, anchored horizontally by long stone walls and timber volumes.
- Lighting
- Twilight conditions with warm interior lighting glowing through the upper strip windows, balancing against the soft dusk sky.
- Atmosphere
- Calm and grounded, blending earthy tactile materials with a serene coastal horizon.
- Environmental context
- Coastal site with native plantings, gravel forecourt, low stone retaining walls, and distant open water.
- Spatial experience
- The composition creates a threshold between the gravel forecourt and the open ocean vista visible through the central breezeway.
- Composition rhythm
- Dense vertical rhythm of timber battens contrasting against the random ashlar stone blocks and horizontal foreground lines.
- Style reading
- Contemporary coastal modern architecture
- Program
- Coastal residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, stone, glass, steel
- Visual identifiers
- vertical-timber-slats, stone-base, central-portal, strip-windows, coastal-setting
- Style tags
- contemporary, coastal-modern, regionalist, warm-minimalism
- Visual tags
- coastal, residential, timber-screen, stone-masonry, framed-view, dusk-lighting
- Geometry
- A heavy stone and timber base supports a floating upper volume wrapped in vertical timber slats, punctuated by a central portal that frames the horizon.
- Facade system
- Vertical timber batten rainscreen over upper level; dry-stacked stone masonry at ground level.
- Structural guess
- Stone load-bearing piers at the ground level supporting a timber-framed upper volume spanning the central opening.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale, anchored horizontally by long stone walls and timber volumes.
- Lighting
- Twilight conditions with warm interior lighting glowing through the upper strip windows, balancing against the soft dusk sky.
- Atmosphere
- Calm and grounded, blending earthy tactile materials with a serene coastal horizon.
- Environmental context
- Coastal site with native plantings, gravel forecourt, low stone retaining walls, and distant open water.
- Spatial experience
- The composition creates a threshold between the gravel forecourt and the open ocean vista visible through the central breezeway.
- Composition rhythm
- Dense vertical rhythm of timber battens contrasting against the random ashlar stone blocks and horizontal foreground lines.
- Style reading
- Contemporary coastal modern architecture
- Program
- Coastal residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture