Kent Farm House
A contemporary rural residence featuring dark standing seam metal wrapping gabled volumes interspersed with pale brickwork, integrating modern form into an open agricultural context.
- What we like about this project
- The monolithic dark metal wrap extends continuously over both walls and pitched roofs of the central gables.
Materials
- standing-seam-metal
- brick
- timber
- glass
Visual identifiers
- standing-seam-metal
- gabled-roofline
- pale-brick
- rural-context
Style tags
- contemporary
- vernacular
- minimal-traditional
Visual tags
- residential
- vernacular-modern
- rural
- metal-cladding
- gabled
- Geometry
- Low-slung, multi-gabled pavilion massing arranged linearly across a lawn, punctuated by dark metal cladding and inset brick volumes.
- Facade system
- Standing seam metal panel cladding combined with inset stretcher-bond brick panels and timber trellis screens.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame construction with insulated metal panels and load-bearing masonry walls.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story residential scale, extended horizontally with low eaves.
- Lighting
- Late afternoon sun casts long shadows across the foreground lawn, highlighting the deep gable reveals and metallic sheen.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and grounded, with sharp contrasts between dark metallic masses and warm natural light.
- Environmental context
- Open rural site featuring manicured lawn, a large mature weeping tree on the right, and clear blue sky.
- Spatial experience
- The long horizontal profile grounds the building into the sprawling landscape while the alternating gabled bays articulate varied programmatic zones.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic repetition of gabled peaks balanced against the continuous low horizontal roofline.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rural vernacular
- Program
- Single-family rural residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- standing-seam-metal, brick, timber, glass
- Visual identifiers
- standing-seam-metal, gabled-roofline, pale-brick, rural-context
- Style tags
- contemporary, vernacular, minimal-traditional
- Visual tags
- residential, vernacular-modern, rural, metal-cladding, gabled
- Geometry
- Low-slung, multi-gabled pavilion massing arranged linearly across a lawn, punctuated by dark metal cladding and inset brick volumes.
- Facade system
- Standing seam metal panel cladding combined with inset stretcher-bond brick panels and timber trellis screens.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame construction with insulated metal panels and load-bearing masonry walls.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story residential scale, extended horizontally with low eaves.
- Lighting
- Late afternoon sun casts long shadows across the foreground lawn, highlighting the deep gable reveals and metallic sheen.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and grounded, with sharp contrasts between dark metallic masses and warm natural light.
- Environmental context
- Open rural site featuring manicured lawn, a large mature weeping tree on the right, and clear blue sky.
- Spatial experience
- The long horizontal profile grounds the building into the sprawling landscape while the alternating gabled bays articulate varied programmatic zones.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic repetition of gabled peaks balanced against the continuous low horizontal roofline.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rural vernacular
- Program
- Single-family rural residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture