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A quintessential midcentury modern pavilion precedent highlighting continuous floor-to-ceiling glazing and post-and-beam framing perched sensitively on a rugged granite outcropping.
- What we like about this project
- The main pavilion appears to float effortlessly on delicate structural lines directly above natural granite boulders.
Materials
- glass
- dark-metal
- stucco
- granite
- timber
Visual identifiers
- floor-to-ceiling-glazing
- post-and-beam-rhythm
- rock-outcrop-siting
- dusk-illumination
Style tags
- midcentury-modern
- regional-modernism
- pavilion
Visual tags
- midcentury-modern
- residential
- woodland
- dusk-shot
- glazed-pavilion
- elevated-deck
- Geometry
- Low-slung rectilinear volumes step across a rocky granite outcrop, featuring a heavily glazed primary pavilion connected by an exterior deck to a solid stucco-finished ancillary block.
- Facade system
- Post-and-beam timber or steel frame with floor-to-ceiling glazed infill panels on the main pavilion and smooth stucco on the secondary block.
- Structural guess
- Post-and-beam frame resting on concrete or steel foundations pinned to rock.
- Spatial scale
- One-story residential scale, elevated slightly off the rocky ground plane.
- Lighting
- Twilight blue hour sky contrasted with warm interior illumination glowing through a continuous window wall and wall-mounted exterior up-down lights.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and inviting twilight mood, balancing the coolness of the bare woods and dusk sky with warm interior light.
- Environmental context
- Woodland site with bare deciduous trees against a fading blue evening sky and rocky, uneven ground terrain.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from below via a rock-cut path leads up to an elevated deck and a warm, glowing interior pavilion that visually merges with the surrounding woodland.
- Composition rhythm
- Steady vertical mullion rhythm across the glazed facade creates a strong horizontal band beneath a flat roofline.
- Style reading
- Midcentury modern residential pavilion
- Program
- Single-family residential living pavilion
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, dark-metal, stucco, granite, timber
- Visual identifiers
- floor-to-ceiling-glazing, post-and-beam-rhythm, rock-outcrop-siting, dusk-illumination
- Style tags
- midcentury-modern, regional-modernism, pavilion
- Visual tags
- midcentury-modern, residential, woodland, dusk-shot, glazed-pavilion, elevated-deck
- Geometry
- Low-slung rectilinear volumes step across a rocky granite outcrop, featuring a heavily glazed primary pavilion connected by an exterior deck to a solid stucco-finished ancillary block.
- Facade system
- Post-and-beam timber or steel frame with floor-to-ceiling glazed infill panels on the main pavilion and smooth stucco on the secondary block.
- Structural guess
- Post-and-beam frame resting on concrete or steel foundations pinned to rock.
- Spatial scale
- One-story residential scale, elevated slightly off the rocky ground plane.
- Lighting
- Twilight blue hour sky contrasted with warm interior illumination glowing through a continuous window wall and wall-mounted exterior up-down lights.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and inviting twilight mood, balancing the coolness of the bare woods and dusk sky with warm interior light.
- Environmental context
- Woodland site with bare deciduous trees against a fading blue evening sky and rocky, uneven ground terrain.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from below via a rock-cut path leads up to an elevated deck and a warm, glowing interior pavilion that visually merges with the surrounding woodland.
- Composition rhythm
- Steady vertical mullion rhythm across the glazed facade creates a strong horizontal band beneath a flat roofline.
- Style reading
- Midcentury modern residential pavilion
- Program
- Single-family residential living pavilion
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture