Kitty Lane
A single-story residential courtyard precedent demonstrating how L-shaped wings and glazed openings connect interior spaces to an open central lawn.
- What we like about this project
- The central corner reveals a recessed outdoor patio sheltered beneath the continuous roofline.
Materials
- stucco
- timber
- glass
- standing-seam-metal
Visual identifiers
- courtyard-layout
- pitched-roof
- dark-framed-glazing
- rendered-walls
Style tags
- contemporary
- vernacular
- residential
Visual tags
- residential
- courtyard
- suburban
- pitched-roof
- single-story
- Geometry
- Low-slung L-shaped layout with pitched roof wings wrapping a central lawn courtyard.
- Facade system
- Rendered masonry walls punctuated by dark-framed glass doors and timber cladding accents.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame or masonry bearing walls with pitched truss roofs.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story residential scale, intimate courtyard proportions.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight casting soft shadows under roof eaves.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, open suburban retreat under soft overcast skies.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or rural plot with dense boundary tree planting and expansive lawn.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across an open lawn, the volumes open up with glazed doors and a sheltered patio recess.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical window and door mullions echo along the long wing.
- Style reading
- Contemporary vernacular residential
- Program
- Residential single-family home
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stucco, timber, glass, standing-seam-metal
- Visual identifiers
- courtyard-layout, pitched-roof, dark-framed-glazing, rendered-walls
- Style tags
- contemporary, vernacular, residential
- Visual tags
- residential, courtyard, suburban, pitched-roof, single-story
- Geometry
- Low-slung L-shaped layout with pitched roof wings wrapping a central lawn courtyard.
- Facade system
- Rendered masonry walls punctuated by dark-framed glass doors and timber cladding accents.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame or masonry bearing walls with pitched truss roofs.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story residential scale, intimate courtyard proportions.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight casting soft shadows under roof eaves.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, open suburban retreat under soft overcast skies.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or rural plot with dense boundary tree planting and expansive lawn.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across an open lawn, the volumes open up with glazed doors and a sheltered patio recess.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical window and door mullions echo along the long wing.
- Style reading
- Contemporary vernacular residential
- Program
- Residential single-family home
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture