Monolithic hilltop modernist house with wood siding
A hillside residential precedent demonstrating the integration of heavy stone masonry bases with floating timber cantilevers and deep overhanging flat roofs.
- What we like about this project
- The central stone pier sharply steps upward beneath the timber overhang, breaking the horizontal rhythm.
Materials
- wood
- stone
- glass
Visual identifiers
- cantilevered-roof
- horizontal-wood-siding
- stone-piers
- hillside-siting
Style tags
- organic-modern
- mid-century
- regionalist
Visual tags
- modernist
- hillside
- cantilever
- stone-masonry
- timber-cladding
- organic-architecture
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical cantilevered volumes with low-sloped flat roofs emerging from a sloping terrain, articulated by stacked horizontal wood siding and massive battered stone piers.
- Facade system
- Horizontal wood siding over framed walls resting on structural stone masonry piers and foundation walls.
- Structural guess
- Wood frame construction supported by heavy stone masonry walls and piers on grade.
- Spatial scale
- Single-family residential scale, roughly two stories high at its highest projection.
- Lighting
- Harsh, direct daylight creating strong highlights on the projecting roof overhangs and deep shadows underneath the cantilevered volumes.
- Atmosphere
- Rugged, isolated, and tightly integrated into the native dry landscape.
- Environmental context
- Arid, scrub-covered hillside landscape with low shrubs and an open sky background.
- Spatial experience
- The building crowns a sloping brush-covered hillside, presenting a heavily anchored base that transitions into floating cantilevered timber volumes against the sky.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal wood cladding bands contrast sharply against the vertical geometry of the rough stone piers.
- Style reading
- Mid-century organic modernism with regional material expression
- Program
- Single-family hillside residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- wood, stone, glass
- Visual identifiers
- cantilevered-roof, horizontal-wood-siding, stone-piers, hillside-siting
- Style tags
- organic-modern, mid-century, regionalist
- Visual tags
- modernist, hillside, cantilever, stone-masonry, timber-cladding, organic-architecture
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical cantilevered volumes with low-sloped flat roofs emerging from a sloping terrain, articulated by stacked horizontal wood siding and massive battered stone piers.
- Facade system
- Horizontal wood siding over framed walls resting on structural stone masonry piers and foundation walls.
- Structural guess
- Wood frame construction supported by heavy stone masonry walls and piers on grade.
- Spatial scale
- Single-family residential scale, roughly two stories high at its highest projection.
- Lighting
- Harsh, direct daylight creating strong highlights on the projecting roof overhangs and deep shadows underneath the cantilevered volumes.
- Atmosphere
- Rugged, isolated, and tightly integrated into the native dry landscape.
- Environmental context
- Arid, scrub-covered hillside landscape with low shrubs and an open sky background.
- Spatial experience
- The building crowns a sloping brush-covered hillside, presenting a heavily anchored base that transitions into floating cantilevered timber volumes against the sky.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal wood cladding bands contrast sharply against the vertical geometry of the rough stone piers.
- Style reading
- Mid-century organic modernism with regional material expression
- Program
- Single-family hillside residence
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture