One-off Houses
A contemporary single-story rural residence featuring horizontal timber cladding, expansive floor-to-ceiling glass, and a stone chimney, designed to integrate seamlessly into its meadow and forest setting.
- What we like about this project
- The central living space opens completely to create a covered outdoor terrace embedded directly beneath the main roofline.
Materials
- timber
- glass
- stone
- metal
Visual identifiers
- timber-cladding
- floor-to-ceiling-glass
- stone-chimney
- flat-roof-overhang
Style tags
- contemporary
- modernist
- minimalist
- regional
Visual tags
- residential
- rural
- transparent
- contemporary
- timber-architecture
- indoor-outdoor
- Geometry
- Low-slung rectilinear horizontal volume featuring a prominent projecting flat roof and a central double-height glazed living space flanked by single-story wings.
- Facade system
- Horizontal timber slat rainscreen combined with expansive floor-to-ceiling aluminum-framed glazing systems.
- Structural guess
- Steel or timber frame supporting a lightweight flat roof structure with large-span glulam beams across the central opening.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story residential scale, extended horizontally across the meadow with a central higher glazed bay.
- Lighting
- Bright, even daylight with soft overcast sky casting gentle shadows under the deep roof overhangs.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, grounded, and open, balancing warm natural timber tones with crisp modern transparency.
- Environmental context
- Rural meadow setting with tall native grasses in the foreground and a dense evergreen forest directly behind the structure.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across an open field, the house presents a transparent pavilion-like elevation that frames the dense pine forest backdrop behind it.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical composition anchored by a central double-height glass void and a vertical stone chimney, balanced by rhythmically paneled side wings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rural pavilion architecture
- Program
- Single-family detached residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, glass, stone, metal
- Visual identifiers
- timber-cladding, floor-to-ceiling-glass, stone-chimney, flat-roof-overhang
- Style tags
- contemporary, modernist, minimalist, regional
- Visual tags
- residential, rural, transparent, contemporary, timber-architecture, indoor-outdoor
- Geometry
- Low-slung rectilinear horizontal volume featuring a prominent projecting flat roof and a central double-height glazed living space flanked by single-story wings.
- Facade system
- Horizontal timber slat rainscreen combined with expansive floor-to-ceiling aluminum-framed glazing systems.
- Structural guess
- Steel or timber frame supporting a lightweight flat roof structure with large-span glulam beams across the central opening.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story residential scale, extended horizontally across the meadow with a central higher glazed bay.
- Lighting
- Bright, even daylight with soft overcast sky casting gentle shadows under the deep roof overhangs.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, grounded, and open, balancing warm natural timber tones with crisp modern transparency.
- Environmental context
- Rural meadow setting with tall native grasses in the foreground and a dense evergreen forest directly behind the structure.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across an open field, the house presents a transparent pavilion-like elevation that frames the dense pine forest backdrop behind it.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical composition anchored by a central double-height glass void and a vertical stone chimney, balanced by rhythmically paneled side wings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rural pavilion architecture
- Program
- Single-family detached residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture