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Concours Villa

Concours Villa begins with a racetrack. SDH Studio overlaid three circuit plans and distilled them into a single line, and that line became the house. Each floor plate of this 6,153 sf residence in Bay Harbor Islands traces a looping contour, shifted slightly from the level below, so the building reads as a stack of banked curves. The result is a home organized around motion: how a car arrives, how a body moves, how light travels.

Location: Bay Harbor Islands, FL
Status: Design Development
Site Area: 10,024 sf
Livable Area: 4,783 sf
Total Area: 6,153 sf
Architect: SDH Studio
Interior Design: SDH Studio
Landscape: TBD
GC: TBD
Photographer: TBD
Team: Stephanie Halfen, Louis Fuentes, Maria Gabriela Medina, Christian Febres, Michelle De Oliveira

A continuous bronze band wraps the upper floor like a guardrail on a fast corner, sweeping out over the driveway in a single cantilevered arc. Beneath it, the facade is clad in large-format travertine panels laid in a stacked grid, their pale, matte surface set against the dark metal edge. Planters spill greenery over the second-floor ledges, softening the horizontal lines and tying the house back to the canopy of palms and pines that surrounds it. At grade, the ground floor sits on a dark plinth that appears to hover above a bed of white river stones and a reflecting channel of water. The effect is of a building held just clear of the ground, poised rather than planted.

The ground floor is where the circuit metaphor becomes literal. Under the deepest part of the cantilever, a turntable presents the owner’s car like a sculpture on a pedestal, ringed by water and framed by a warm wood soffit with a single circular light above. Nearby, a curved, fully glazed lounge wraps around a round table, and beyond it a car gallery opens directly off the living spaces, so the collection is part of daily life rather than hidden in a garage. A driveway of grass-set permeable pavers curves in from the street, and a long lap pool runs the length of the side garden, its edge spilling over into a lower channel.

Upstairs, the private rooms open onto planted terraces, and a round spa cantilevers from the second-floor edge, suspended above the garden. The roof completes the sequence. An oval lawn sits at its center like the infield of a track, surrounded by a sunken lounge, sculpted planters, and a grid of skylights that pull daylight into the rooms below. The green roof insulates the house against the full Florida sun while giving the family a garden in the air. Out in the landscape, a circular pavilion with a disc-shaped canopy repeats the geometry at the scale of an outdoor room. From the turntable to the rooftop, every curve belongs to the same continuous line.

Concours Villa begins with a racetrack. SDH Studio overlaid three circuit plans and distilled them into a single line, and that line became the house. Each floor plate of this 6,153 sf residence in Bay Harbor Islands traces a looping contour, shifted slightly from the level below, so the building reads as a stack of banked curves. The result is a home organized around motion: how a car arrives, how a body moves, how light travels.

Concours Villa, Bay Harbor Islands - Front
Concours Villa, Bay Harbor Islands - Car Turntable
Concours Villa, Bay Harbor Islands - Bronze Cantilever over Driveway
Concours Villa, Bay Harbor Islands - Garage 1
Concours Villa, Bay Harbor Islands - Garage 2
Concours Villa, Bay Harbor Islands - Lap Pool and Side Garden

The Conceptual Narrative

Concours Villa, Bay Harbor Islands – Racetrack Concept Diagram
Concours Villa, Bay Harbor Islands - Aerial Rooftop

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