The Bays, Lavenham
An architectural precedent by Project Orange demonstrating the integration of traditional pitched forms with contemporary rendered and glazed volumes.
- What we like about this project
- A taller timber-and-glass clerestory element emerges directly from the low-slung rendered wing.
Materials
- brick
- clay-tile
- render
- timber
- glass
Visual identifiers
- pitched-tile-roof
- rendered-facade
- brick-boundary-wall
- timber-glazing
- recessed-entrance
Style tags
- contemporary-vernacular
- traditional-modern
- residential
Visual tags
- vernacular
- hybrid
- residential
- courtyard
- rural-context
- Geometry
- Asymmetric composition of connected volumes featuring pitched roofs, a recessed glass connection point, and a projecting double-height timber-glazed dormer.
- Facade system
- Combination of render over masonry, brickwork, and timber curtain wall framing.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry walls with timber roof framing.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled domestic development, approximately two stories high.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused overcast daylight with gentle shadows cast by the courtyard walls.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, welcoming rural vernacular transition.
- Environmental context
- Rural or village setting featuring traditional masonry boundary walls and pitched roof forms.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching through the brick courtyard walls leads toward a recessed, glazed threshold between traditional and modern volumes.
- Composition rhythm
- Alternating solid masonry and rendered walls broken by rhythmic punched windows and vertical timber mullions.
- Style reading
- Contemporary vernacular vernacular fusion
- Program
- Residential home or rural development
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, clay-tile, render, timber, glass
- Visual identifiers
- pitched-tile-roof, rendered-facade, brick-boundary-wall, timber-glazing, recessed-entrance
- Style tags
- contemporary-vernacular, traditional-modern, residential
- Visual tags
- vernacular, hybrid, residential, courtyard, rural-context
- Geometry
- Asymmetric composition of connected volumes featuring pitched roofs, a recessed glass connection point, and a projecting double-height timber-glazed dormer.
- Facade system
- Combination of render over masonry, brickwork, and timber curtain wall framing.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry walls with timber roof framing.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled domestic development, approximately two stories high.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused overcast daylight with gentle shadows cast by the courtyard walls.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, welcoming rural vernacular transition.
- Environmental context
- Rural or village setting featuring traditional masonry boundary walls and pitched roof forms.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching through the brick courtyard walls leads toward a recessed, glazed threshold between traditional and modern volumes.
- Composition rhythm
- Alternating solid masonry and rendered walls broken by rhythmic punched windows and vertical timber mullions.
- Style reading
- Contemporary vernacular vernacular fusion
- Program
- Residential home or rural development
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture