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    • Lantern house

    A timber house on a headland, reorganised around the two hours a day the sun comes in low.

    Living rooms · Sea Ranch, California · 184 m² · 2024

    Lantern house

    The scheme, measured

    Sampled from the photographs on this page and clustered in Lab, then ordered by how much of the room each colour covers. The largest holds 30.7% of it. Nobody chose these; change the photographs and they change.

    1. #5b534b, 30.7 per cent of the room
    2. #453e37, 22.5 per cent of the room
    3. #746c63, 17.8 per cent of the room
    4. #a7adb3, 10.4 per cent of the room
    5. #998c7f, 10.3 per cent of the room
    6. #29211e, 8.3 per cent of the room
    1. #5B534B 30.7%
    2. #453E37 22.5%
    3. #746C63 17.8%
    4. #A7ADB3 10.4%
    5. #998C7F 10.3%
    6. #29211E 8.3%

    Everything here is about the light in the late afternoon, which arrives almost horizontally and hits the back wall. The furniture was placed to be in it rather than to face the view.