Villa dall’Ava
Paris, France · 1991
Photo · Photo by Hectic Pictures
A nighttime precedent showing the integration of an elevated rooftop swimming pool and terrace with a lightweight mesh perimeter, framing long-distance urban views.
- What we like about this project
- The fan-like beam of light radiating from the rooftop terrace acts as a beacon in the night.
Materials
- corrugated-aluminum
- glass
- steel-mesh
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- rooftop-swimming-pool
- corrugated-cladding
- orange-mesh-fence
- night-lighting
- eiffel-tower-view
Style tags
- rem-koolhaas
- oma
- modernist
- industrial-materials
Visual tags
- rooftop-terrace
- residential
- modernist-villa
- night-photography
- panoramic-view
- Geometry
- An elevated rectangular swimming pool volume runs parallel to a corrugated metal-clad volume, topped by a roof terrace enclosed by a curved, translucent orange mesh fence.
- Facade system
- Corrugated metal rainscreen and structural glazing.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame supporting a cantilevered pool structure.
- Spatial scale
- Private residential scale, elevated approximately two to three stories above ground level.
- Lighting
- Nighttime illumination with artificial blue light glowing from the pool, a bright spotlight radiating upward from the terrace, and the distant warm lights of the Paris skyline.
- Atmosphere
- Dramatic and cinematic, defined by glowing artificial light sources against a dark, expansive night sky.
- Environmental context
- Suburban residential hillside overlooking a dense urban valley with the Eiffel Tower visible on the horizon.
- Spatial experience
- The rooftop acts as an elevated, open-air platform offering panoramic views of the distant city skyline, contrasting a private, enclosed pool deck with an exposed garden terrace.
- Composition rhythm
- The horizontal band of the rooftop terrace and pool balances the verticality of the distant Eiffel Tower and the upward-pointing spotlight.
- Style reading
- Late-twentieth-century avant-garde modernism
- Program
- Private residence
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- corrugated-aluminum, glass, steel-mesh, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- rooftop-swimming-pool, corrugated-cladding, orange-mesh-fence, night-lighting, eiffel-tower-view
- Style tags
- rem-koolhaas, oma, modernist, industrial-materials
- Visual tags
- rooftop-terrace, residential, modernist-villa, night-photography, panoramic-view
- Geometry
- An elevated rectangular swimming pool volume runs parallel to a corrugated metal-clad volume, topped by a roof terrace enclosed by a curved, translucent orange mesh fence.
- Facade system
- Corrugated metal rainscreen and structural glazing.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame supporting a cantilevered pool structure.
- Spatial scale
- Private residential scale, elevated approximately two to three stories above ground level.
- Lighting
- Nighttime illumination with artificial blue light glowing from the pool, a bright spotlight radiating upward from the terrace, and the distant warm lights of the Paris skyline.
- Atmosphere
- Dramatic and cinematic, defined by glowing artificial light sources against a dark, expansive night sky.
- Environmental context
- Suburban residential hillside overlooking a dense urban valley with the Eiffel Tower visible on the horizon.
- Spatial experience
- The rooftop acts as an elevated, open-air platform offering panoramic views of the distant city skyline, contrasting a private, enclosed pool deck with an exposed garden terrace.
- Composition rhythm
- The horizontal band of the rooftop terrace and pool balances the verticality of the distant Eiffel Tower and the upward-pointing spotlight.
- Style reading
- Late-twentieth-century avant-garde modernism
- Program
- Private residence
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture