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A residential open-plan interior precedent demonstrating the integration of a double-height volume with an elevated courtyard light-well and indoor planting.
- What we like about this project
- An upper-level planter box visible through the oversized interior courtyard glass, bringing exterior greenery into the second-story volume.
Materials
- wood
- plaster
- glass
- fabric
- stone
Visual identifiers
- double-height
- upper-courtyard-window
- open-plan
- indoor-planting
Style tags
- contemporary
- warm-minimal
- residential
Visual tags
- residential
- warm-minimal
- daylight
- living-hall
- open-kitchen
- Geometry
- Open-plan double-height living, dining, and kitchen zones overlooked by an upper indoor courtyard glazed opening with exterior planting.
- Structural guess
- Concrete or steel framing with wide-span floor slabs
- Spatial scale
- Double-height open living volume with intimate human-scaled furniture groups on the ground floor.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight entering from ground-level sliders and a dramatic upper courtyard window casting warm sun onto interior walls.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and light-filled, anchored by natural wood flooring and soft organic seating forms.
- Environmental context
- Domestic interior opening to rear garden greenery and daylight courtyard zones.
- Spatial experience
- Expansive volume balancing intimate ground-level seating areas with lofty views toward an elevated light well and indoor garden.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal continuity of living-dining-kitchen zones countered by the vertical stack of the upper courtyard window.
- Style reading
- Contemporary warm minimal interior
- Program
- Residential open living, dining, and kitchen space
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- wood, plaster, glass, fabric, stone
- Visual identifiers
- double-height, upper-courtyard-window, open-plan, indoor-planting
- Style tags
- contemporary, warm-minimal, residential
- Visual tags
- residential, warm-minimal, daylight, living-hall, open-kitchen
- Geometry
- Open-plan double-height living, dining, and kitchen zones overlooked by an upper indoor courtyard glazed opening with exterior planting.
- Structural guess
- Concrete or steel framing with wide-span floor slabs
- Spatial scale
- Double-height open living volume with intimate human-scaled furniture groups on the ground floor.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight entering from ground-level sliders and a dramatic upper courtyard window casting warm sun onto interior walls.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and light-filled, anchored by natural wood flooring and soft organic seating forms.
- Environmental context
- Domestic interior opening to rear garden greenery and daylight courtyard zones.
- Spatial experience
- Expansive volume balancing intimate ground-level seating areas with lofty views toward an elevated light well and indoor garden.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal continuity of living-dining-kitchen zones countered by the vertical stack of the upper courtyard window.
- Style reading
- Contemporary warm minimal interior
- Program
- Residential open living, dining, and kitchen space
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior