Bronze A' Design Award Winner 2025
The scene presents a two-story contemporary residential structure viewed from an exterior vantage point across a manicured lawn in warm late-afternoon light, organizing the description from foreground landscape through terrace zone to the layered architectural facade and background vegetation. In the immediate foreground, dense rounded shrubs with small glossy dark-green leaves, appearing soft and slightly yielding like boxwood or similar ornamental hedging, establish the garden boundary and frame the lower portion of the view, their uniform dome shapes suggesting careful maintenance and creating rhythmic undulation along the property edge, beyond this verdant border a level lawn extends in short cropped grass. The middle ground contains an elevated terrace or outdoor living platform positioned at the building's ground level, this outdoor room furnished with contemporary seating including what appear to be three low-profile lounge chairs upholstered in charcoal gray fabric suggesting soft cushioned comfort, arranged facing inward toward a long horizontal element that could be a fireplace or architectural water feature glowing with warm amber light like embers or flame, two tall slender vertical elements rise from this terrace level, cylindrical forms perhaps fifteen to twenty feet in height with sleek black metallic surfaces that would feel smooth and cool to touch like powder-coated steel, their industrial character contrasting the natural and masonry elements, two closed patio umbrellas in similar black finishes stand furled awaiting deployment. The architectural facade itself organizes into distinct horizontal registers of contrasting material character, the lower level constructs from large rectangular stone blocks in warm cream or pale beige suggesting limestone or travertine, these stones would feel cool and slightly rough with subtle surface variation, their substantial size and tight jointing conveying solidity and permanence, set into this stone base are large rectangular glazed openings with charcoal-gray metal frames revealing glimpses of warm interior lighting and what appears to be pale wood or light-colored interior surfaces, these windows deeply recessed creating pronounced shadow reveals. The upper facade register presents a dramatic perforated brick screen dominating the composition's upper two-thirds, constructed from terra-cotta red-orange bricks arranged in a precise grid of square openings, each aperture perhaps twelve to eighteen inches across, creating hundreds of identical voids in strict horizontal and vertical alignment, this lattice surface would feel warm and slightly rough textured with the modular irregularity of fired clay, the screen creates visual complexity through its repetitive pattern generating depth and shadow while allowing filtered views of sky and vegetation behind, suggesting interior spaces receive dappled indirect light rather than harsh direct sun, the warm red-orange hue recalls sun-baked clay tiles or desert earth reading as warm and earthbound rather than industrial. Behind and above the building, tall slender trees with feathery bright yellow-green foliage suggesting cypress or similar columnar evergreens rise into a pale gray-blue sky with soft diffused clouds, these vertical natural elements echo the vertical punctuation of the black cylindrical forms while providing organic counterpoint to the building's geometric precision, the overall atmospheric quality suggests a temperate climate perhaps Mediterranean in character with the warmth and light suggesting either mid-to-late afternoon in spring or summer when the sun angle creates raking illumination across surfaces enhancing texture and dimensional reading, the scene conveys an atmosphere of refined contemporary luxury integrated thoughtfully with landscape and climate, spaces designed for comfortable outdoor living with visual privacy maintained through the screening strategy while preserving connection to surrounding greenery and sky.
The consulate turned villa conversion project is an innovative design that combines architectural aesthetics and functionality. The project aims to transform the building into modern living spaces while preserving its original character. Among the features of this design, sustainable material use and energy efficiency are at the forefront. Innovations such as integrating open spaces, maximum use of natural light, and optimizing indoor flow distinguish this project from others.