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Residential Architecture · 2025
The Courtyard House
A single-storey home arranged around a quiet planted courtyard.
- Project type
- Residential Architecture
- Location
- Hillside site, inland Provence (fictional concept)
- Year
- 2025
- Area
- 214 m²
- Status
- Concept project
Concept project — portfolio demonstration
A low house organised around a courtyard, where every principal room opens onto a private landscape of gravel, stone and a single mature olive tree.
The concept
Project story
The Courtyard House began with a simple observation: on an exposed hillside, the most comfortable outdoor room is often the one you build for yourself. Rather than framing the wide landscape from every window, the house turns inward, gathering its spaces around a planted courtyard that offers shelter, shade and intimacy.
The plan is a loose ring of rooms around the courtyard. Living spaces face the garden directly; bedrooms borrow light through deep, angled openings; a shaded loggia mediates between inside and out. The architecture is deliberately calm — cream lime plaster, warm oak joinery and pale stone paving carry the composition, while a deep overhang protects the glass from the summer sun.
As a concept project, the house studies a way of living rather than a specific brief: cooking, resting and gathering all orbit the same quiet outdoor space, so that daily life and the seasons remain in constant, gentle contact.
Design approach
How the design thinks.
01
Spatial organization
Rooms are arranged in a ring around the courtyard, compressing circulation into a short oak-lined gallery so every space remains connected to the garden.
02
Light
Light is filtered rather than admitted: deep reveals, a continuous loggia and high clerestories temper the strong hillside sun into a soft, even glow.
03
Materials
Lime plaster, pale limestone and warm oak are used in large, uninterrupted fields, letting texture and shadow carry the decoration.
04
Circulation
A single oak-slat gallery links the rooms like an ambulatory; its rhythm of slats turns the walk through the house into a slow transition from garden to room.
05
Interior atmosphere
Oatmeal linen, soft plaster and green reflections from the courtyard keep the interiors quiet and tactile, close to the tone of the garden itself.
Bathroom in monolithic travertine.
Technical overview
- Type of project
- Residential Architecture
- Conceptual surface
- 214 m²
- Status
- Concept project
- Materials
- Lime plaster · Pale limestone · Warm oak joinery · Travertine · Linen · Micro-cement
Demonstration content — the projects presented are fictional concepts and carry no commercial references, prices or certifications.
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