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Entrance
A deep timber-lined portal set into a wall of stone.
Architecture
Villa 66
Type
Private Villa
The idea
Timber boxes on a base of stone.
Villa 66 is a private house of two simple parts. A ground floor of pale veined stone and full-height glass carries an upper volume wrapped in light timber, which overhangs to shade the terraces and frame the views out to the garden and pool.
The entrance is a deep portal lined in warm wood, with a tall black door between slatted fins. On the garden side, the living rooms open straight onto a terrace of cast stone, a timber deck and the pool, and a lawn beyond holds a fire pit ringed with outdoor chairs.
Material palette
Light oak cladding
Upper volume
Grey veined stone
Ground floor walls
Dark timber
Entrance portal
Timber & white canvas
Garden chairs
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Garden
A fire pit on the lawn, beneath the timber volume.
About the project
From the portal to the fire pit
The house is met through its portal, a deep recess that draws visitors in from the stone frontage towards the black door. Inside, the living rooms run towards the garden, where the glass slides open and the room continues outside in the shade of the upper floor. From the terrace the route steps down onto the deck beside the water, then across the lawn to the fire pit, where the timber volume is seen from below.
Grey veined stone wraps the ground-floor walls, a cool and solid base. Light oak clads the upper volume, warm in tone and soft in the sun. At the entrance, dark timber lines the portal, giving the threshold depth and a change of colour before the door. In the garden, chairs of timber and white canvas repeat the two tones of the house at a smaller scale.
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