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上海
A tropical residential precedent featuring a deep-eaved clay tile roof and open verandah connecting interior living to a poolside garden.
- What we like about this project
- The deep roof overhang extends past the living volume to form a completely sheltered outdoor gallery space.
Materials
- clay-tile
- stucco
- timber
- concrete
- glass
Visual identifiers
- pitched-clay-tile-roof
- deep-verandah
- poolside-pavilion
- tropical-landscape
Style tags
- tropical
- regionalist
- vernacular-modern
Visual tags
- tropical
- indoor-outdoor
- residential
- verandah
- pool
- Geometry
- Low-slung single-story pavilion with a long pitched roofline extending over an open-air verandah.
- Facade system
- Open verandah with structural concrete posts and louvered timber shutters on stucco walls.
- Structural guess
- Concrete post-and-beam frame supporting a timber roof structure.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled domestic pavilion with low eaves and intimate verandah ceiling heights.
- Lighting
- Bright, diffused daylight under an overcast sky casting soft shadows beneath the deep roof overhang.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, breezy, and shaded retreat merging indoor comfort with lush outdoor greenery.
- Environmental context
- Lush tropical coastal setting surrounded by mature coconut palms and lawn bordering water.
- Spatial experience
- Transition from poolside lawn steps up to a shaded verandah that frames indoor-outdoor tropical living.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal roof and verandah lines balanced by the vertical cadence of columns and towering palm trunks.
- Style reading
- Tropical regionalist pavilion architecture
- Program
- Tropical coastal residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- clay-tile, stucco, timber, concrete, glass
- Visual identifiers
- pitched-clay-tile-roof, deep-verandah, poolside-pavilion, tropical-landscape
- Style tags
- tropical, regionalist, vernacular-modern
- Visual tags
- tropical, indoor-outdoor, residential, verandah, pool
- Geometry
- Low-slung single-story pavilion with a long pitched roofline extending over an open-air verandah.
- Facade system
- Open verandah with structural concrete posts and louvered timber shutters on stucco walls.
- Structural guess
- Concrete post-and-beam frame supporting a timber roof structure.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled domestic pavilion with low eaves and intimate verandah ceiling heights.
- Lighting
- Bright, diffused daylight under an overcast sky casting soft shadows beneath the deep roof overhang.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, breezy, and shaded retreat merging indoor comfort with lush outdoor greenery.
- Environmental context
- Lush tropical coastal setting surrounded by mature coconut palms and lawn bordering water.
- Spatial experience
- Transition from poolside lawn steps up to a shaded verandah that frames indoor-outdoor tropical living.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal roof and verandah lines balanced by the vertical cadence of columns and towering palm trunks.
- Style reading
- Tropical regionalist pavilion architecture
- Program
- Tropical coastal residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture