Two-story dark box volume house nestled in foggy coastal trees with
A moody exterior precedent demonstrating how a dark-clad, two-story residential box with corner glazing interacts with a foggy, tree-heavy site.
- What we like about this project
- The corner glazing wraps continuously without a visible vertical corner column, dissolving the massing edge.
Materials
- dark-metal-panel
- glass
- timber
- steel
Visual identifiers
- corner-glazing
- dark-cladding
- two-story-volume
- foggy-setting
Style tags
- contemporary
- minimalist
- modern-cabin
Visual tags
- residential
- coastal
- woodland
- modern
- glow
- transparency
- Geometry
- A two-story orthogonal rectangular volume sits stepped into a sloping landscape, featuring floor-to-ceiling corner glazing that wraps the upper level.
- Facade system
- Dark panelized exterior cladding paired with large glazed storefront corners.
- Structural guess
- Steel or wood frame with large span corner headers supporting the upper level.
- Spatial scale
- Compact two-story residential scale, intimate in relation to the massive foreground tree.
- Lighting
- Twilight/fog condition with warm interior artificial illumination contrasting against cool, overcast exterior light.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and mysterious, balancing heavy shadow and cool fog against a warm internal glow.
- Environmental context
- Sloping coastal or woodland site surrounded by mature evergreen trees, dense underbrush, and heavy fog.
- Spatial experience
- Approached through dense trees and fog, the glowing interior volumes provide a warm lantern-like beacon embedded in a moody landscape.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical tree trunks frame a central stacked rectangular mass with floor-to-ceiling corner apertures.
- Style reading
- Contemporary minimalist cabin
- Program
- Single-family residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- dark-metal-panel, glass, timber, steel
- Visual identifiers
- corner-glazing, dark-cladding, two-story-volume, foggy-setting
- Style tags
- contemporary, minimalist, modern-cabin
- Visual tags
- residential, coastal, woodland, modern, glow, transparency
- Geometry
- A two-story orthogonal rectangular volume sits stepped into a sloping landscape, featuring floor-to-ceiling corner glazing that wraps the upper level.
- Facade system
- Dark panelized exterior cladding paired with large glazed storefront corners.
- Structural guess
- Steel or wood frame with large span corner headers supporting the upper level.
- Spatial scale
- Compact two-story residential scale, intimate in relation to the massive foreground tree.
- Lighting
- Twilight/fog condition with warm interior artificial illumination contrasting against cool, overcast exterior light.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and mysterious, balancing heavy shadow and cool fog against a warm internal glow.
- Environmental context
- Sloping coastal or woodland site surrounded by mature evergreen trees, dense underbrush, and heavy fog.
- Spatial experience
- Approached through dense trees and fog, the glowing interior volumes provide a warm lantern-like beacon embedded in a moody landscape.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical tree trunks frame a central stacked rectangular mass with floor-to-ceiling corner apertures.
- Style reading
- Contemporary minimalist cabin
- Program
- Single-family residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture