Livin’ on the Ledge
A lakeside residential precedent showcasing stepped stone retaining walls, terraced patios, and gray shingle siding that integrate a multi-story home into a sloping shoreline.
- What we like about this project
- Low-profile architectural lighting embedded flush into the rugged dry-stack stone retaining wall.
Materials
- natural-stone
- wood-shingle
- copper
- glass
- granite-pavers
Visual identifiers
- stone-retaining-walls
- gray-shingle-siding
- lakeside-patio
- stepped-terraces
- twilight-sky
Style tags
- rustic-contemporary
- lakeside
- regional-vernacular
Visual tags
- waterfront
- terraced-landscape
- rustic-contemporary
- outdoor-living
- twilight
- Geometry
- Multi-tiered terraced stone retaining walls cascade down toward a waterfront edge, supporting an upper patio and a timber-framed residence volume with expansive vertical multi-pane windows.
- Facade system
- Gray shingle siding with dark multi-pane windows and copper gutter detailing.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame construction over masonry foundations and stacked stone retaining walls.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale with expansive multi-tiered outdoor living terraces stepping down a steep slope.
- Lighting
- Twilight ambient light with warm glow from exterior step lights embedded in the stone wall and a dramatic pink-and-blue sunset cloudscape over the water.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and dramatic twilight atmosphere where warm landscape lighting contrasts with cool dusk water and sunset skies.
- Environmental context
- Lakeside sloping terrain surrounded by dense pine trees and autumn foliage.
- Spatial experience
- The approach steps weave through heavy stone terraces, leading up to an open lakefront patio bounded by stone retaining walls and mature pine trees.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window divisions on the upper volume mirror the tall pine trunks against the horizontal layering of stone terraces.
- Style reading
- Rustic contemporary lakeside architecture
- Program
- Waterfront residential home
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- natural-stone, wood-shingle, copper, glass, granite-pavers
- Visual identifiers
- stone-retaining-walls, gray-shingle-siding, lakeside-patio, stepped-terraces, twilight-sky
- Style tags
- rustic-contemporary, lakeside, regional-vernacular
- Visual tags
- waterfront, terraced-landscape, rustic-contemporary, outdoor-living, twilight
- Geometry
- Multi-tiered terraced stone retaining walls cascade down toward a waterfront edge, supporting an upper patio and a timber-framed residence volume with expansive vertical multi-pane windows.
- Facade system
- Gray shingle siding with dark multi-pane windows and copper gutter detailing.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame construction over masonry foundations and stacked stone retaining walls.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story residential scale with expansive multi-tiered outdoor living terraces stepping down a steep slope.
- Lighting
- Twilight ambient light with warm glow from exterior step lights embedded in the stone wall and a dramatic pink-and-blue sunset cloudscape over the water.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and dramatic twilight atmosphere where warm landscape lighting contrasts with cool dusk water and sunset skies.
- Environmental context
- Lakeside sloping terrain surrounded by dense pine trees and autumn foliage.
- Spatial experience
- The approach steps weave through heavy stone terraces, leading up to an open lakefront patio bounded by stone retaining walls and mature pine trees.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical window divisions on the upper volume mirror the tall pine trunks against the horizontal layering of stone terraces.
- Style reading
- Rustic contemporary lakeside architecture
- Program
- Waterfront residential home
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture