New Builds
A contemporary residential precedent demonstrating how vertical timber cladding and stepped volumes can integrate a low-slung home into a sloping, wooded landscape.
- What we like about this project
- The roof geometry shifts angles across each staggered volume, breaking down the overall length of the facade.
Materials
- timber
- glass
- metal
- gravel
Visual identifiers
- vertical-timber-cladding
- stepped-roofline
- large-sliding-glass
- wood-deck
Style tags
- contemporary
- timber-modern
- regional
Visual tags
- residential
- timber-facade
- contemporary
- rural-context
- stepped-massing
- Geometry
- Asymmetric massing with staggered volumes stepping across the sloping site, featuring a low-pitched and angled roofscape.
- Facade system
- Vertical timber rainscreen cladding with flush-mounted and recessed aluminum-framed glazing.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame or light gauge steel construction on concrete foundations.
- Spatial scale
- Low-slung two-story residential volume scaled to human interaction with extensive ground-level glazing.
- Lighting
- Direct, bright daylight casting sharp shadows across the vertical timber cladding and deep window reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Warm and naturalistic under bright sunlight, blending harmoniously with the surrounding trees.
- Environmental context
- Rural or suburban fringe setting with a gravel foreground, a narrow lawn strip, and a densely wooded hillside backdrop.
- Spatial experience
- The long horizontal composition grounds the building against the steep, wooded background while opening wide to the front foreground.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal rhythm established by the deck and low rooflines, punctuated by vertical timber boards and aligned window mullions.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regional timber architecture
- Program
- Detached single-family residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, glass, metal, gravel
- Visual identifiers
- vertical-timber-cladding, stepped-roofline, large-sliding-glass, wood-deck
- Style tags
- contemporary, timber-modern, regional
- Visual tags
- residential, timber-facade, contemporary, rural-context, stepped-massing
- Geometry
- Asymmetric massing with staggered volumes stepping across the sloping site, featuring a low-pitched and angled roofscape.
- Facade system
- Vertical timber rainscreen cladding with flush-mounted and recessed aluminum-framed glazing.
- Structural guess
- Timber frame or light gauge steel construction on concrete foundations.
- Spatial scale
- Low-slung two-story residential volume scaled to human interaction with extensive ground-level glazing.
- Lighting
- Direct, bright daylight casting sharp shadows across the vertical timber cladding and deep window reveals.
- Atmosphere
- Warm and naturalistic under bright sunlight, blending harmoniously with the surrounding trees.
- Environmental context
- Rural or suburban fringe setting with a gravel foreground, a narrow lawn strip, and a densely wooded hillside backdrop.
- Spatial experience
- The long horizontal composition grounds the building against the steep, wooded background while opening wide to the front foreground.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal rhythm established by the deck and low rooflines, punctuated by vertical timber boards and aligned window mullions.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regional timber architecture
- Program
- Detached single-family residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture