A modern rural retreat
Photo · Brotherton Lock. Location Oxfordshire Completion
A single-story rural retreat featuring dark vertical timber cladding and a recessed brick outdoor dining terrace, blending contemporary form with agrarian materiality.
- What we like about this project
- A cutout in the brick wall of the covered terrace frames distant views through the structure.
Materials
- dark-timber
- red-brick
- glass
- steel
Visual identifiers
- dark-timber-cladding
- exposed-brick
- covered-outdoor-terrace
- rural-retreat
Style tags
- contemporary
- vernacular
- minimalist-rustic
Visual tags
- rural
- single-story
- timber-cladding
- outdoor-living
- contemporary-vernacular
- Geometry
- Low-slung single-story rectilinear massing featuring a deep covered outdoor terrace integrated into the main roofline.
- Facade system
- Vertical dark wood siding combined with exposed red brick masonry and large sliding glass panels.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing brickwork with timber roof framing.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story residential scale, intimate porch and dining area relative to the long horizontal roofline.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight with soft natural illumination highlighting the dark timber grain and meadow foreground.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet, grounded rural solitude under an expansive cloudy sky.
- Environmental context
- Open rural landscape with wild meadow planting and sparse trees in the background.
- Spatial experience
- The deep porch provides a shaded, intermediate threshold between the open meadow landscape and the interior living spaces.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong horizontal roofline contrasting with vertical timber boards and square punched brick openings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rural vernacular
- Program
- Rural residential dwelling
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- dark-timber, red-brick, glass, steel
- Visual identifiers
- dark-timber-cladding, exposed-brick, covered-outdoor-terrace, rural-retreat
- Style tags
- contemporary, vernacular, minimalist-rustic
- Visual tags
- rural, single-story, timber-cladding, outdoor-living, contemporary-vernacular
- Geometry
- Low-slung single-story rectilinear massing featuring a deep covered outdoor terrace integrated into the main roofline.
- Facade system
- Vertical dark wood siding combined with exposed red brick masonry and large sliding glass panels.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing brickwork with timber roof framing.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story residential scale, intimate porch and dining area relative to the long horizontal roofline.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight with soft natural illumination highlighting the dark timber grain and meadow foreground.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet, grounded rural solitude under an expansive cloudy sky.
- Environmental context
- Open rural landscape with wild meadow planting and sparse trees in the background.
- Spatial experience
- The deep porch provides a shaded, intermediate threshold between the open meadow landscape and the interior living spaces.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong horizontal roofline contrasting with vertical timber boards and square punched brick openings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rural vernacular
- Program
- Rural residential dwelling
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture