Wooden Shingle Facades: Contemporary Precision in Vernacular Construction

Design a small alpine chapel in the manner of Peter Zumthor clad in hand-split larch shingles laid so precisely that the weathering pattern itself becomes the ornament — silvered on the exposed faces, still warm brown where sheltered by the eaves. Compose a leaf-shaped plan volume on a mountain slope, a continuous shingle skin from wall to roof with no gutter or trim, a slim steel stair to the entrance, snow patches and bare rock around, cold clear alpine light showing the two-tone weathering, eye-level three-quarter view, 35mm lens, architectural photography, ultra photorealistic, 8K