Poolside at Bernbaum/Magadini Architects Texas Hill Country project.
A Texas Hill Country residential precedent combining rugged local stone massing with a prominent raised infinity-edge pool and deep shaded veranda.
- What we like about this project
- The infinity pool's full-width water weir cascades directly down a tiled retaining wall into a hidden lower basin.
Materials
- limestone
- standing-seam-metal
- stucco
- glass
- wood
Visual identifiers
- stone-facade
- infinity-pool
- gabled-roof
- veranda-lounges
Style tags
- regional-vernacular
- rustic-contemporary
- residential
Visual tags
- residential
- vernacular
- poolside
- rural-retreat
- stone-masonry
- Geometry
- An expansive single-to-two-story gabled stone volume sits behind a raised, rectilinear infinity-edge pool structure in the foreground.
- Facade system
- Coursed ashlar stone bearing walls with punched window openings and deep roof overhangs.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry walls with timber or steel roof framing.
- Spatial scale
- Large residential estate scale; long horizontal facade spanning multiple structural bays.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting crisp tree shadows across the facade and strong highlights on the pool water.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, sunlit, and tranquil rural retreat atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Rural Texas Hill Country setting with mature native oak trees framing the view and rolling lawn below.
- Spatial experience
- The composition stages a tiered sequence from the lawn up past the cascading pool edge to the shaded veranda and stone architecture.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal layering of lawn, raised water wall, pool deck, and gabled roofline punctuated by vertical chimneys and columns.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regional vernacular
- Program
- Private residential estate
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- limestone, standing-seam-metal, stucco, glass, wood
- Visual identifiers
- stone-facade, infinity-pool, gabled-roof, veranda-lounges
- Style tags
- regional-vernacular, rustic-contemporary, residential
- Visual tags
- residential, vernacular, poolside, rural-retreat, stone-masonry
- Geometry
- An expansive single-to-two-story gabled stone volume sits behind a raised, rectilinear infinity-edge pool structure in the foreground.
- Facade system
- Coursed ashlar stone bearing walls with punched window openings and deep roof overhangs.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry walls with timber or steel roof framing.
- Spatial scale
- Large residential estate scale; long horizontal facade spanning multiple structural bays.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting crisp tree shadows across the facade and strong highlights on the pool water.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, sunlit, and tranquil rural retreat atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Rural Texas Hill Country setting with mature native oak trees framing the view and rolling lawn below.
- Spatial experience
- The composition stages a tiered sequence from the lawn up past the cascading pool edge to the shaded veranda and stone architecture.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal layering of lawn, raised water wall, pool deck, and gabled roofline punctuated by vertical chimneys and columns.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regional vernacular
- Program
- Private residential estate
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture