Large House Exterior with a Green Roof Ideas and Designs

Home on Pemaquid Pond
Home on Pemaquid Pond
BRIBURN – Architecture for LifeBRIBURN – Architecture for Life
The vegetated roof is planted with alpine seedums and helps with storm-water management. It not only absorbs rainfall to reduce runoff but it also respires, so heat gain in the summer is zero. Photo by Trent Bell
Yin Yang House
Yin Yang House
Brooks + Scarpa ArchitectsBrooks + Scarpa Architects
The Yin-Yang House is a net-zero energy single-family home in a quiet Venice, CA neighborhood. The design objective was to create a space for a large and growing family with several children, which would create a calm, relaxed and organized environment that emphasizes public family space. The home also serves as a place to entertain, and a welcoming space for teenagers as they seek social space with friends. The home is organized around a series of courtyards and other outdoor spaces that integrate with the interior of the house. Facing the street the house appears to be solid. However, behind the steel entry door is a courtyard, which reveals the indoor-outdoor nature of the house behind the solid exterior. From the entry courtyard, the entire space to the rear garden wall can be seen; the first clue of the home’s spatial connection between inside and out. These spaces are designed for entertainment, and the 40 foot sliding glass door to the living room enhances the harmonic relationship of the main room, allowing the owners to host many guests without the feeling of being overburdened. The tensions of the house’s exterior are subtly underscored by a 12-inch steel band that hews close to, but sometimes rises above or falls below the floor line of the second floor – a continuous loop moving inside and out like a pen that is never lifted from the page, but reinforces the intent to spatially weave together the indoors with the outside as a single space. Scale manipulation also plays a formal role in the design of the structure. From the rear, the house appears to be a single-story volume. The large master bedroom window and the outdoor steps are scaled to support this illusion. It is only when the steps are animated with people that one realizes the true scale of the house is two stories. The kitchen is the heart of the house, with an open working area that allows the owner, an accomplished chef, to converse with friends while cooking. Bedrooms are intentionally designed to be very small and simple; allowing for larger public spaces, emphasizing the family over individual domains. The breakfast room looks across an outdoor courtyard to the guest room/kids playroom, establishing a visual connection while defining the separation of uses. The children can play outdoors while under adult supervision from the dining area or the office, or do homework in the office while adults occupy the adjacent outdoor or indoor space. Many of the materials used, including the bamboo interior, composite stone and tile countertops and bathroom finishes are recycled, and reinforce the environmental DNA of the house, which also has a green roof. Blown-in cellulose insulation, radiant heating and a host of other sustainable features aids in the performance of the building’s heating and cooling. The active systems in the home include a 12 KW solar photovoltaic panel system, the largest such residential system available on the market. The solar panels also provide shade from the sun, preventing the house from becoming overheated. The owners have been in the home for over nine months and have yet to receive a power bill.
Naples Modern
Naples Modern
In-Site Design Group LLCIn-Site Design Group LLC
Daniel Newcomb photography
This is an example of a large and white modern two floor render detached house in Miami with a flat roof and a green roof.
Upper East Side Townhouse
Upper East Side Townhouse
Michael K Chen ArchitectureMichael K Chen Architecture
The garden facade is glazed terra cotta and aluminum, and features a vertical garden. The upper terrace leads directly to the kitchen, and the garden is planted with shade loving ferns, mosses, and sedge grasses. The roof terrace at top extends across the entire building. Winner of both the Residential Architecture award and the R&D Award from Architect Magazine, the journal of the AIA. Photo by Alan Tansey. Architecture and Interior Design by MKCA.
Stanhope Avenue
Stanhope Avenue
Iguana Architects & Interior DesignIguana Architects & Interior Design
Rear extension
This is an example of a large and black contemporary rear house exterior in London with three floors, a flat roof, a green roof and a grey roof.
Xoric 10
Xoric 10
Bell ArquitecturaBell Arquitectura
El proyecto se sitúa en un entorno inmejorable, orientado a Sur y con unas magníficas vistas al mar Mediterráneo. La parcela presenta una gran pendiente diagonal a la cual la vivienda se adapta perfectamente creciendo en altura al mismo ritmo que aumenta el desnivel topográfico. De esta forma la planta sótano de la vivienda es a todos los efectos exterior, iluminada y ventilada naturalmente. Es un edificio que sobresale del entorno arquitectónico en el que se sitúa, con sus formas armoniosas y los materiales típicos de la tradición mediterránea. La vivienda, asimismo, devuelve a la naturaleza más del 50% del espacio que ocupa en la parcela a través de su cubierta ajardinada que, además, le proporciona aislamiento térmico y dota de vida y color a sus formas.
Woodside Modern Napa Style
Woodside Modern Napa Style
The Design Build CompanyThe Design Build Company
Design ideas for a large and gey modern bungalow detached house in San Francisco with mixed cladding, a hip roof and a green roof.
War House
War House
CLAPP ArchitectesCLAPP Architectes
Façade avant avec terrasse
Design ideas for a large and brown contemporary bungalow front detached house in Other with wood cladding, a flat roof, a green roof, a black roof and shiplap cladding.
Nachhaltiges Terrassenhaus
Nachhaltiges Terrassenhaus
Peter Stasek ArchitectsPeter Stasek Architects
Photo of a large and white contemporary concrete detached house in Frankfurt with three floors, a flat roof and a green roof.
Woodside Eugenia
Woodside Eugenia
Lydia Lyons DesignsLydia Lyons Designs
Design ideas for a large and gey contemporary bungalow detached house in San Francisco with wood cladding, a hip roof and a green roof.
Canyon
Canyon
Koch ArchitectsKoch Architects
Mid-Century Modern Restoration - Cantilever balcony with glass railing, mid-century-modern home renovation in Lafayette, California. Photo by Jonathan Mitchell Photography
Connect 10 Mar Vista
Connect 10 Mar Vista
Connect HomesConnect Homes
Joe Fletcher
This is an example of a large and gey contemporary two floor detached house in Los Angeles with mixed cladding, a flat roof and a green roof.
front porch
front porch
colorificcolorific
Pierre Galant
Design ideas for a large and green traditional two floor detached house in Los Angeles with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a green roof.
Westlight House
Westlight House
McClellan | TelloneMcClellan | Tellone
Benjamin Benschneider
Photo of a large and multi-coloured contemporary detached house in Seattle with wood cladding, three floors, a flat roof and a green roof.
Walnut Woods Residence
Walnut Woods Residence
John Senhauser ArchitectsJohn Senhauser Architects
Taking its cues from both persona and place, this residence seeks to reconcile a difficult, walnut-wooded site with the late client’s desire to live in a log home in the woods. The residence was conceived as a 24 ft x 150 ft linear bar rising into the trees from northwest to southeast. Positioned according to subdivision covenants, the structure bridges 40 ft across an existing intermittent creek, thereby preserving the natural drainage patterns and habitat. The residence’s long and narrow massing allowed many of the trees to remain, enabling the client to live in a wooded environment. A requested pool “grotto” and porte cochere complete the site interventions. The structure’s section rises successively up a cascading stair to culminate in a glass-enclosed meditative space (known lovingly as the “bird feeder”), providing access to the grass roof via an exterior stair. The walnut trees, cleared from the site during construction, were locally milled and returned to the residence as hardwood flooring. Photo Credit: Eric Williams (Sophisticated Living magazine)
Modern Country Club, Los Altos
Modern Country Club, Los Altos
AK DesignAK Design
Large modern gray and white two-story stucco, siding and stone exterior home in Los Altos.
Photo of a large and gey modern two floor detached house in San Francisco with wood cladding, a flat roof and a green roof.
Westminster Residence
Westminster Residence
Hsu McCulloughHsu McCullough
The patio deck with swimming pool at the rear and side yards at dusk
This is an example of a large and beige modern two floor detached house in Los Angeles with wood cladding, a flat roof, a green roof and a grey roof.
Monarch Bay
Monarch Bay
Payton AddisonPayton Addison
Design ideas for a large and white contemporary bungalow detached house in Orange County with mixed cladding, a flat roof and a green roof.
Altadena Craftsman exterior
Altadena Craftsman exterior
colorificcolorific
Pierre Galant
Photo of a large and green traditional two floor detached house in Santa Barbara with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a green roof.
HUF Haus AM
HUF Haus AM
Alexander Huf - M.Sc ArchitektAlexander Huf - M.Sc Architekt
HUF HAUS GmbH u. Co. KG
Large and gey world-inspired bungalow detached house in Stuttgart with wood cladding, a flat roof and a green roof.

Large House Exterior with a Green Roof Ideas and Designs

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