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A contemporary woodland villa precedent featuring horizontal stone bands cantilevered over a recessed subterranean vehicle entry, ideal for studies in blending luxury residential massing with natural topography.
- What we like about this project
- The entire upper stone volume floats cleanly above the dark subterranean garage void without visible intermediate columns.
Materials
- travertine
- stone
- glass
- steel
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- cantilevered-stone
- ribbon-window
- subterranean-garage
- horizontal-massing
Style tags
- contemporary
- minimalist
- luxury
- rationalist
Visual tags
- contemporary-villa
- woodland-setting
- stone-cladding
- subterranean-parking
- cantilever
- Geometry
- Low-slung horizontal massing with cantilevered stone bands framing continuous ribbon glazing, set above a recessed subterranean garage carved into an earthen slope.
- Facade system
- Travertine or light stone panel cladding with recessed continuous glazing ribbons.
- Structural guess
- Concrete cantilever slabs with steel framing supporting the upper stone envelope.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story single-family scale, horizontal emphasis accentuated by long cantilevered parapets and ribbons.
- Lighting
- Overcast daylight casting soft, even illumination across the stone facade and ground plane, with deep shadow inside the garage portal.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet, secluded woodland mood punctuated by the sharp contrast of clean white stone and a red sports car.
- Environmental context
- Woodland site with tall deciduous trees rising directly behind the low-profile villa and freshly graded earthen berms flanking the entrance.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the sunken driveway reveals a dramatic transition from the natural earth retaining walls into the precision-cut floating stone volume overhead.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong horizontal stratification balanced by the vertical rhythm of background pines and the diagonal slash of retaining berms.
- Style reading
- Contemporary minimalist luxury residential
- Program
- Single-family luxury residence with garage
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- travertine, stone, glass, steel, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- cantilevered-stone, ribbon-window, subterranean-garage, horizontal-massing
- Style tags
- contemporary, minimalist, luxury, rationalist
- Visual tags
- contemporary-villa, woodland-setting, stone-cladding, subterranean-parking, cantilever
- Geometry
- Low-slung horizontal massing with cantilevered stone bands framing continuous ribbon glazing, set above a recessed subterranean garage carved into an earthen slope.
- Facade system
- Travertine or light stone panel cladding with recessed continuous glazing ribbons.
- Structural guess
- Concrete cantilever slabs with steel framing supporting the upper stone envelope.
- Spatial scale
- Two-story single-family scale, horizontal emphasis accentuated by long cantilevered parapets and ribbons.
- Lighting
- Overcast daylight casting soft, even illumination across the stone facade and ground plane, with deep shadow inside the garage portal.
- Atmosphere
- Quiet, secluded woodland mood punctuated by the sharp contrast of clean white stone and a red sports car.
- Environmental context
- Woodland site with tall deciduous trees rising directly behind the low-profile villa and freshly graded earthen berms flanking the entrance.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the sunken driveway reveals a dramatic transition from the natural earth retaining walls into the precision-cut floating stone volume overhead.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong horizontal stratification balanced by the vertical rhythm of background pines and the diagonal slash of retaining berms.
- Style reading
- Contemporary minimalist luxury residential
- Program
- Single-family luxury residence with garage
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture