The architectural theme for MonTerra on Cochrane Lakes is based on historical style, contemporary design requirements, and natural harmony.
The unique natural lake setting provides the opportunity to create an estate community that will build on the materials, colors, and forms found in nature.
The historic house styles that most suitably reflect the intended overall architectural design theme for MonTerra on Cochrane Lakes are: the Prairie style, the Arts and Crafts style, the Craftsman style, the Tudor style, the Ranch/Farmhouse style, the Georgian style, and the Colonial style. These styles are offered as an inspiration and the basis from which to build your special home in MonTerra on Cochrane Lakes.
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The Prairie Style: (1900 - 1920)
The Prairie Style, most commonly associated with Frank Lloyd Wright,
is inspired by the landscape surrounding the house. Identifiable architectural features of this style of home include a low-pitched roof, usually hipped, with broad overhanging eaves. The Prairie Style home is constructed with two stories and hosts one-storey wings or porches that feature massive, square porch supports. Attention is also paid to eaves, cornices, and façade detailing, emphasizing horizontal lines in harmony with the land on which it sits. |
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The Arts and Crafts Style: (1890 - 1940)
With its origins rooted in a reaction to industrialization, The Arts and Crafts style enabled master builders to take pride in their craft. This home typically features a gabled roof, usually steeply pitched with cross gables. The gables commonly show decorative trusses at apex; overhanging eaves and are usually accompanied with exposed rafter ends. Other identifying features of The Arts and Crafts Style home include: a dominant curved roofline; gable and eyebrow dormers; asymmetrical massing; tall, narrow windows, grouped in multiples and with multi-pane glazing; massive chimneys, and attractive recessed entries. |
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The Craftsman Style: (1905-1930)
The Craftsman Style is a graceful answer to the formality of the Victorian era. Features include a low-pitched, gabled roof (occasionally hipped) with wide, unenclosed eave overhang. Typically roof rafters are exposed and decorative beams or braces are commonly placed under gables to enhance the look of the home. Another important feature of the Craftsman is the porch, either full- or partial-width, framed by tapered square columns to support the roof. These columns or pedestals frequently extend to ground level without a break at the porch floor. |
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The Tudor Style: (1890-1940)
With roots in Medieval England, The Tudor Style is often identified by the decorative half-timbering present on many of these homes. The Tudor Style possesses a steeply pitched roof, and is usually side-gabled although less commonly may be hipped or front-gabled. The beautiful façade is dominated by one or more prominent and steeply pitched cross gables. Tall, narrow windows complete the look, usually in multiple groups and with multi-pane glazing. Capping off the look are massive chimneys, commonly crowned by decorative chimney pots. |
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The Ranch/Farmhouse Style:
The Ranch/Farmhouse Style boasts effortless elegance. With simple box-like symmetrical massing and a medium-pitched roof, this home is typically side-gabled. The horizontal wood siding is chosen to contrast the trim/shutters as it highlights symmetrical windows. The appealing flat facades host sweeping porches supported by slender columns. Other features include gable dormers and minimal ornamentation. |
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The Georgian Style:
Georgian styles feature square, symmetrical shapes, and are well proportioned. A centered entry, and portico with columns. Entry door pediment is well proportioned & supported by columns, with arched transoms over the doors. The windows are even spaced; square, or rectangular with a centered semi circle over (a Venetian Window).
The roofs are generally gabled or hipped and feature dentil mouldings to eaves, with brick/stone fronts. |
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The Colonial Style
Colonial styles are symmetrical & rectangular in appearance. The overhangs are supported by columns and pillars. Front verandahs are cozy and protected, and are generally crested.
Common colonial features include functional roof dormers, with lower pitched gable roofs. Double hung, multi-pane windows are accented with shutters.
Exterior facades are finished with brick, or stone and wood siding. Exterior doors are usually multipanel in design with sidelights and topped with rectangular transoms, or fan lights, or circle top transoms.
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The design process in MonTerra will include many aspects of each homeowner's project, as well as a commitment to the sustainability of Cochrane Lakes.
MonTerra's architectural guidelines are positioned to
balance the immediate requirements and wishes of the homeowner/builder, with long-term responsibilities to the community and environment.
Each home site offers topographical, siting, and visual orientation opportunities as a starting point in the design process. Each homeowner's design should reflect these opportunities and develop from them, while considering each individual's needs, lifestyle and tastes to provide each family with the optimum home. MonTerra on Cochrane Lakes is dedicated to the relationship of the site location, the homes, the community, and the way each of these components contribute to and affect the environment. |
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