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A hillside residential precedent demonstrating low-slung horizontal massing, broad protective eaves, and continuous ribbon windows integrated into native dry grassland topography.
- What we like about this project
- The roof plane extends significantly past the glass line, almost matching the depth of the lower balcony.
Materials
- wood
- glass
- stucco
- metal
Visual identifiers
- broad-eaves
- ribbon-glazing
- hillside-integration
- horizontal-massing
Style tags
- contemporary
- regionalist
- modernist
Visual tags
- modern-residential
- hillside
- nature-integration
- overhangs
- regionalism
- Geometry
- Low-profile horizontal massing stepped into a sloping grassy hillside, featuring wide overhanging eaves and continuous ribbon glazing along the upper floor.
- Facade system
- Post-and-beam wood framing with continuous floor-to-ceiling multi-lite glazing and recessed balconies.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame with steel reinforcement for wide cantilevers and deep overhangs.
- Spatial scale
- Single-to-two-story residential scale, hugging the topography to maintain a low visual profile.
- Lighting
- Direct, strong daylight from a clear blue sky creating deep shadow underneath the broad roof overhangs.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, sunny, and sheltered, blending rustic natural landscaping with clean modern horizontal lines.
- Environmental context
- Open hillside site covered in dry native grasses with mature trees clustered behind the structure.
- Spatial experience
- Approached from below through tall natural grass, the structure reads as a protective horizontal shelf embedded directly into the slope.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong horizontal stratification created by the roofline, glass ribbon, and the grassy slope below.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regional modernist residence
- Program
- Single-family hillside residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- wood, glass, stucco, metal
- Visual identifiers
- broad-eaves, ribbon-glazing, hillside-integration, horizontal-massing
- Style tags
- contemporary, regionalist, modernist
- Visual tags
- modern-residential, hillside, nature-integration, overhangs, regionalism
- Geometry
- Low-profile horizontal massing stepped into a sloping grassy hillside, featuring wide overhanging eaves and continuous ribbon glazing along the upper floor.
- Facade system
- Post-and-beam wood framing with continuous floor-to-ceiling multi-lite glazing and recessed balconies.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame with steel reinforcement for wide cantilevers and deep overhangs.
- Spatial scale
- Single-to-two-story residential scale, hugging the topography to maintain a low visual profile.
- Lighting
- Direct, strong daylight from a clear blue sky creating deep shadow underneath the broad roof overhangs.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, sunny, and sheltered, blending rustic natural landscaping with clean modern horizontal lines.
- Environmental context
- Open hillside site covered in dry native grasses with mature trees clustered behind the structure.
- Spatial experience
- Approached from below through tall natural grass, the structure reads as a protective horizontal shelf embedded directly into the slope.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong horizontal stratification created by the roofline, glass ribbon, and the grassy slope below.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regional modernist residence
- Program
- Single-family hillside residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture