Horst Architects
A contemporary tropical residence precedent showcasing deep horizontal overhangs, extensive glazing, and stone-accented balconies.
Materials
- glass
- concrete
- stone
- timber
Visual identifiers
- floor-to-ceiling-glass
- horizontal-slabs
- stone-balcony
- tropical-setting
Style tags
- contemporary
- tropical-modern
- minimalist
- luxurious
Visual tags
- modern-villa
- horizontal-composition
- transparent-facade
- tropical-architecture
- luxury-residential
- Geometry
- Low-slung rectilinear pavilion volume with stacked horizontal floor slabs, featuring continuous floor-to-ceiling glass wrapping the perimeter.
- Facade system
- Floor-to-ceiling structural glass curtain wall with sliding doors and cantilevered concrete roof and floor slabs.
- Structural guess
- Post-and-beam concrete frame with expansive floor plates and cantilevered roof overhangs.
- Spatial scale
- Large two-story residential or hospitality scale with generous ceiling heights per floor.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sunlight casting crisp shadows across the facade overhangs and dappled shadow patterns on the foreground lawn.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, luminous, and open to the surrounding natural landscape.
- Environmental context
- Lush tropical setting with mature palm trees and green lawn framing the rear or front facade of the building.
- Spatial experience
- Open and transparent living volume that visually extends the interior out into the surrounding lawn and tropical canopy.
- Composition rhythm
- Balanced horizontal registers defined by clean floor slabs and structural glass bays.
- Style reading
- Contemporary tropical modernist pavilion
- Program
- Luxury residential villa or resort
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, concrete, stone, timber
- Visual identifiers
- floor-to-ceiling-glass, horizontal-slabs, stone-balcony, tropical-setting
- Style tags
- contemporary, tropical-modern, minimalist, luxurious
- Visual tags
- modern-villa, horizontal-composition, transparent-facade, tropical-architecture, luxury-residential
- Geometry
- Low-slung rectilinear pavilion volume with stacked horizontal floor slabs, featuring continuous floor-to-ceiling glass wrapping the perimeter.
- Facade system
- Floor-to-ceiling structural glass curtain wall with sliding doors and cantilevered concrete roof and floor slabs.
- Structural guess
- Post-and-beam concrete frame with expansive floor plates and cantilevered roof overhangs.
- Spatial scale
- Large two-story residential or hospitality scale with generous ceiling heights per floor.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sunlight casting crisp shadows across the facade overhangs and dappled shadow patterns on the foreground lawn.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, luminous, and open to the surrounding natural landscape.
- Environmental context
- Lush tropical setting with mature palm trees and green lawn framing the rear or front facade of the building.
- Spatial experience
- Open and transparent living volume that visually extends the interior out into the surrounding lawn and tropical canopy.
- Composition rhythm
- Balanced horizontal registers defined by clean floor slabs and structural glass bays.
- Style reading
- Contemporary tropical modernist pavilion
- Program
- Luxury residential villa or resort
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture