Whitebeams
An exterior residential precedent featuring cantilevered concrete-look slabs and vertical timber screening integrated seamlessly into a wild meadow landscape.
- What we like about this project
- The central curve in the upper volume wraps gently around an existing small tree.
Materials
- timber
- glass
- concrete
- stucco
Visual identifiers
- cantilevered-roof
- wood-fins
- wildflower-meadow
- curved-facade
Style tags
- contemporary
- organic
- modernist
Visual tags
- residential
- nature-integrated
- cantilever
- sustainable-vernacular
- landscape-architecture
- Geometry
- Horizontal composition featuring cantilevered roof slabs and a soft curved facade setback that embraces a central courtyard tree.
- Facade system
- Glass curtain wall screened by vertical timber fins, paired with smooth plaster or cast concrete horizontal bands.
- Structural guess
- Post and beam or reinforced concrete frame allowing for broad roof cantilevers.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale, anchored comfortably into a rolling landscape.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused daylight under a hazy sky, casting gentle shadows beneath wide eaves.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and secluded, blending refined tectonic lines with wild natural overgrowth.
- Environmental context
- Rural or suburban fringe setting surrounded by wild meadow grasses, dense deciduous trees, and flowering poppies.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across an untamed meadow, the house opens up via generous glazing and deep sheltering overhangs.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical timber louvers create a steady rhythm across the upper level glazing.
- Style reading
- Contemporary organic residential architecture
- Program
- Single-family rural residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, glass, concrete, stucco
- Visual identifiers
- cantilevered-roof, wood-fins, wildflower-meadow, curved-facade
- Style tags
- contemporary, organic, modernist
- Visual tags
- residential, nature-integrated, cantilever, sustainable-vernacular, landscape-architecture
- Geometry
- Horizontal composition featuring cantilevered roof slabs and a soft curved facade setback that embraces a central courtyard tree.
- Facade system
- Glass curtain wall screened by vertical timber fins, paired with smooth plaster or cast concrete horizontal bands.
- Structural guess
- Post and beam or reinforced concrete frame allowing for broad roof cantilevers.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale, anchored comfortably into a rolling landscape.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused daylight under a hazy sky, casting gentle shadows beneath wide eaves.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and secluded, blending refined tectonic lines with wild natural overgrowth.
- Environmental context
- Rural or suburban fringe setting surrounded by wild meadow grasses, dense deciduous trees, and flowering poppies.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across an untamed meadow, the house opens up via generous glazing and deep sheltering overhangs.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical timber louvers create a steady rhythm across the upper level glazing.
- Style reading
- Contemporary organic residential architecture
- Program
- Single-family rural residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture