Níall McLaughlin Architects
A coastal residential precedent showcasing repeating folded hip roofs with triangular clerestory elements and a delicate structural veranda extending toward open landscape views.
- What we like about this project
- Triangular clerestory windows punctuate the peaks of each roof fold, floating the roof planes visually above the wall plate.
Materials
- standing-seam-metal
- timber
- glass
- steel
- wood-deck
Visual identifiers
- folded-metal-roof
- clerestory-gable
- slender-columns
- coastal-veranda
- timber-cladding
Style tags
- contemporary
- regionalist
- lightweight
- refined
Visual tags
- coastal
- residential
- roof-form
- cantilever
- indoor-outdoor
- landscape-integration
- Geometry
- Low horizontal massing punctuated by repeating folded hip roofs with triangular clerestory gables, extending into an expansive open veranda supported by slender pilotis.
- Facade system
- Dark timber-clad solid walls alternating with full-height floor-to-ceiling glass panels beneath deep roof eaves.
- Structural guess
- Light steel frame supporting folded roof geometry with slender perimeter columns and timber floor framing.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story residential scale, anchored horizontally into the slope with an elevated deck platform.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused overcast daylight casting subtle highlights across standing-seam metal roof planes and casting soft shadows beneath the deep overhangs.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, contemplative, and deeply connected to the surrounding rural and coastal expanse.
- Environmental context
- Coastal rural landscape with rolling green fields, marshland, and a distant sea horizon under an expansive cloudy sky.
- Spatial experience
- The architecture steps lightly across the sloping landscape, transitioning from solid, private timber-clad rooms into an open-air veranda framing distant sea horizons.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating rhythmic peaks of the folded roof structure balanced against the low, steady horizontal line of the deck and timber base.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regionalist architecture
- Program
- Coastal residence or retreat
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- standing-seam-metal, timber, glass, steel, wood-deck
- Visual identifiers
- folded-metal-roof, clerestory-gable, slender-columns, coastal-veranda, timber-cladding
- Style tags
- contemporary, regionalist, lightweight, refined
- Visual tags
- coastal, residential, roof-form, cantilever, indoor-outdoor, landscape-integration
- Geometry
- Low horizontal massing punctuated by repeating folded hip roofs with triangular clerestory gables, extending into an expansive open veranda supported by slender pilotis.
- Facade system
- Dark timber-clad solid walls alternating with full-height floor-to-ceiling glass panels beneath deep roof eaves.
- Structural guess
- Light steel frame supporting folded roof geometry with slender perimeter columns and timber floor framing.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story residential scale, anchored horizontally into the slope with an elevated deck platform.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused overcast daylight casting subtle highlights across standing-seam metal roof planes and casting soft shadows beneath the deep overhangs.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, contemplative, and deeply connected to the surrounding rural and coastal expanse.
- Environmental context
- Coastal rural landscape with rolling green fields, marshland, and a distant sea horizon under an expansive cloudy sky.
- Spatial experience
- The architecture steps lightly across the sloping landscape, transitioning from solid, private timber-clad rooms into an open-air veranda framing distant sea horizons.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating rhythmic peaks of the folded roof structure balanced against the low, steady horizontal line of the deck and timber base.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regionalist architecture
- Program
- Coastal residence or retreat
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture