From the street, the house reads in three distinct bands. At grade, a low wall of textured stone and a gate of slender dark-bronze bars hold the line of the sidewalk, while the garage door behind is finished in horizontal wood slats so even the most practical surface stays warm. Above, a dark bronze plinth carries the two principal floors, and two cantilevered plates push forward over it, their undersides clad in timber and set with small downlights that glow at dusk.
The façade is asymmetrical. A single stone-clad pier rises through both upper floors, dividing a wide bay on the left from a narrower composition on the right, where a panel of vertical timber runs full height and a slender tree grows from a planter set into the slab. Planters line the slab edges at each level, softening every horizontal. Privacy comes from depth and shadow rather than blank walls.
At the rear, the architecture loosens. The roof extends in one long, timber-lined canopy, carried at its corner by tall bronze fins, and shelters a double-height living room that opens fully to the terrace. A second, lower canopy steps out over the kitchen and dining room, its soffit cut by a slatted louver that filters sunlight onto the stone below. The terrace is raised above the garden: a platform of pale stone holding an outdoor dining table and a granite-clad summer kitchen.
The infinity-edge pool ties the composition to the landscape. Its walls are wrapped in small gray mosaic tile, lifting the water above the lawn so it reads as its own volume, with a shallow sun ledge reaching toward the garden. Broad stone steps descend beside it to a lawn edged with palms and bougainvillea.
Throughout, the palette stays disciplined: textured gray stone, warm timber, dark bronze, and abundant green. Every overhang is sized to shade the rooms behind it from the South Florida sun, and every level has its own garden edge. This is a house designed for life in the open air, on a site that offers very little room for it.
