California Casual • Ranch Style Exterior

A single-story ranch-style house. A low and horizontally extended volume, with a gently sloping roof and deep eaves. The exterior walls are light-colored plaster with localized raw wood panels. The front yard features drought-tolerant plants and gravel, and the main openings face the unseen backyard. A large tree shades half of the roof. Avoid: making the house a vertical volume of two or more stories, a steep roof pitch, a front yard covered with neatly trimmed lawn, large floor-to-ceiling windows on the main facade exposing the interior.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一棟單層的牧場式住宅。低矮而水平延展的量體,屋頂是平緩的坡並有深簷,外牆是淺色抹灰配局部的原木板;前院是耐旱植栽與碎石,主要的開口都朝向後方看不見的院子。一棵大樹遮住半邊屋頂。避免:把住宅做成兩層以上的垂直量體、屋頂坡度陡峭、前院鋪滿修剪整齊的草坪、正立面開大面落地窗暴露室內。