Cedar Peak House
A modern mountain residence precedent featuring a transparent glass pavilion and deep overhanging roofs that frame extensive forest and valley views at dusk.
- What we like about this project
- Brightly lit red interior furnishings create vibrant pockets of color against the dark alpine backdrop.
Materials
- glass
- steel
- concrete
- timber
Visual identifiers
- floor-to-ceiling-glass
- overhanging-roof
- concrete-chimney
- mountain-setting
Style tags
- contemporary
- modernist
- regionalist
Visual tags
- mountain-architecture
- residential
- modernist
- evening-light
- transparent-pavilion
- Geometry
- Low-slung rectilinear pavilion with deep overhanging roof planes, large floor-to-ceiling glass expanses, and an exposed concrete core anchored into a sloping site.
- Facade system
- Floor-to-ceiling glazed curtain wall with thin steel framing and deep timber-lined eaves.
- Structural guess
- Steel moment frame with concrete core stability.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale, fitting snugly into the sloping pine-forested terrain.
- Lighting
- Warm interior artificial illumination contrasting with the cool blue-hour twilight of the mountain landscape.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and glowing warmth nestled within a cool, darkening alpine forest.
- Environmental context
- Isolated mountainous site surrounded by evergreen forest and distant ridgelines under a dusk sky.
- Spatial experience
- Interior spaces glow brightly against the evening twilight, drawing the eye outward through transparent walls toward the expansive mountain landscape.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong horizontal roof and floor planes balanced by vertical steel window mullions and a central concrete chimney mass.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regional modernism
- Program
- Single-family mountain residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, steel, concrete, timber
- Visual identifiers
- floor-to-ceiling-glass, overhanging-roof, concrete-chimney, mountain-setting
- Style tags
- contemporary, modernist, regionalist
- Visual tags
- mountain-architecture, residential, modernist, evening-light, transparent-pavilion
- Geometry
- Low-slung rectilinear pavilion with deep overhanging roof planes, large floor-to-ceiling glass expanses, and an exposed concrete core anchored into a sloping site.
- Facade system
- Floor-to-ceiling glazed curtain wall with thin steel framing and deep timber-lined eaves.
- Structural guess
- Steel moment frame with concrete core stability.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale, fitting snugly into the sloping pine-forested terrain.
- Lighting
- Warm interior artificial illumination contrasting with the cool blue-hour twilight of the mountain landscape.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and glowing warmth nestled within a cool, darkening alpine forest.
- Environmental context
- Isolated mountainous site surrounded by evergreen forest and distant ridgelines under a dusk sky.
- Spatial experience
- Interior spaces glow brightly against the evening twilight, drawing the eye outward through transparent walls toward the expansive mountain landscape.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong horizontal roof and floor planes balanced by vertical steel window mullions and a central concrete chimney mass.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regional modernism
- Program
- Single-family mountain residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture