Kent Farm House
An interior living space precedent showcasing a dramatic gabled glass wall that connects domestic scale with open rural vistas.
- What we like about this project
- A built-in telescope sits aligned with the central axis, emphasizing the observatory nature of the gable window.
Materials
- glass
- steel
- plaster
- wood
- fabric
Visual identifiers
- gable-window
- triangular-glass
- countryside-view
- vaulted-ceiling
Style tags
- contemporary
- rural-modern
- minimalist
Visual tags
- rural
- living-room
- framing-views
- vaulted
- residential
- Geometry
- Symmetrical gable volume framing a large floor-to-ceiling glass wall with a triangular clerestory apex.
- Facade system
- Full-height glazed curtain wall with black mullions beneath a structural gable frame.
- Structural guess
- Steel portal frame supporting a timber-lined vaulted roof.
- Spatial scale
- Double-height living space centered around a domestic seating layout.
- Lighting
- Bright exterior daylight floods the interior, creating high contrast against the darker foreground living area.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and open, anchored by the warm domestic interior and directed outward to nature.
- Environmental context
- Rural landscape with open fields and rolling hills visible through the rear glass facade.
- Spatial experience
- A grounded, intimate seating zone opens up dramatically toward the expansive rural horizon.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict central symmetry defined by the structural roof ridge and triangular framing.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rural residential interior
- Program
- Residential living hall
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- glass, steel, plaster, wood, fabric
- Visual identifiers
- gable-window, triangular-glass, countryside-view, vaulted-ceiling
- Style tags
- contemporary, rural-modern, minimalist
- Visual tags
- rural, living-room, framing-views, vaulted, residential
- Geometry
- Symmetrical gable volume framing a large floor-to-ceiling glass wall with a triangular clerestory apex.
- Facade system
- Full-height glazed curtain wall with black mullions beneath a structural gable frame.
- Structural guess
- Steel portal frame supporting a timber-lined vaulted roof.
- Spatial scale
- Double-height living space centered around a domestic seating layout.
- Lighting
- Bright exterior daylight floods the interior, creating high contrast against the darker foreground living area.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and open, anchored by the warm domestic interior and directed outward to nature.
- Environmental context
- Rural landscape with open fields and rolling hills visible through the rear glass facade.
- Spatial experience
- A grounded, intimate seating zone opens up dramatically toward the expansive rural horizon.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict central symmetry defined by the structural roof ridge and triangular framing.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rural residential interior
- Program
- Residential living hall
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior