The first thing that reads in this modern villa is the line. Wide bands of brick, thin shadow gaps and a deep overhang pull the composition sideways, so the volume feels stretched rather than stacked. The exterior keeps to a restrained register, with pale masonry and concrete edges holding the form together while the glazing opens the house toward the garden. What happens at the street is very different: the front side is closed, heavier, and almost defensive.

Brickwork that runs across the volume

Horizontal brickwork sets the pace of the house. You see it in the long mortar lines, in the way the overhang cuts a clean edge above the walls, and in the low, calm profile of the volume. The masonry is not treated as a decorative skin. It gives the house its rhythm and makes the façade read as one measured band after another. That horizontal facade carries through the exterior, so even the smaller openings sit within the same ordered line.

Those lines matter because they keep the villa from feeling heavy. The brick surface, in a light tone, picks up the shifting daylight and changes character from one side to the next. Where the concrete forms a crisp border, the masonry feels denser and more grounded. The result is a composition that looks carefully pared back without becoming flat. Every joint and ledge seems placed to reinforce the direction of the volume rather than interrupt it.

A closed front facade at the street side

From the street, the house behaves differently. The closed front facade presents a robust wall of brick, interrupted by only a few openings and a large sheltered recess. It reads as a protective side rather than a display side. That choice is clear in the massing: fewer transparent surfaces, more depth, and a stronger sense of enclosure. The heavier frontage gives privacy to the interior while sharpening the contrast with the open garden side.

The street elevation also shows the house as a solid object. A large overcovered opening, almost portal-like, creates a pause in the wall, but the volume still stays compact. Grgrey paving and the concrete structure around it add to that grounded impression. Nothing feels accidental. The front side holds back, and that restraint makes the garden-facing side feel even more open when you move around the building.

Large glass openings toward the garden

On the garden side, the composition changes. Large glass openings sit under broad overhangs, and the walls step aside to let the view run across the terrace and into the lawn. Dark frames outline the glazing and keep the reflections sharp against the pale brick. Here the villa becomes more porous, but only on this side. The transparency is aimed carefully at the outdoor space, not at the street, which keeps the internal rooms linked to the garden without exposing them unnecessarily.

In the photographs, the glazing does more than admit light. It turns the terrace into an extension of the living space and sets up a clear line between inside floor, outdoor paving and the water beyond. The overhangs cut shade across the glass, so the openings appear deep rather than flat. That depth is one of the defining features of the project: the windows are not simply inserted into the wall; they sit back, protected by the horizontal structure above them.

Terrace edge, shadow and water

The terrace and pool support the architecture rather than compete with it. A straight-edged deck in a concrete-like finish runs along the house, meeting the glass at a clean threshold. Beyond it, the rectangular swimming pool reflects the pale masonry and the dark frames of the windows. The pool is not treated as a separate object dropped into the garden. It sits in the same geometry as the house, reinforcing the long horizontal reading of the site and extending the exterior line into the landscape.

Shadow is part of that reading too. The overhang casts a firm band across the garden frontage, and the terrace stays partly in shade while the lawn and water catch more direct light. This shift keeps the outdoor area from becoming visually flat. It also makes the roof edge, the brickwork and the glazed wall easier to read as separate layers. The villa uses those layers to move between enclosure and openness without changing its basic calm.

Materials kept to brick, concrete and glass

The material palette stays limited. Brick provides the body of the house, concrete marks the edges and overhangs, and glass opens the larger garden-facing spans. Because the palette is so tight, the details do the work. The horizontal joints in the masonry, the dark profiles around the openings and the crisp meeting points between wall and slab all become more visible. Nothing is hidden behind decoration. The project relies on proportion, depth and surface texture to hold the image together.

That restraint also affects how the villa sits in its surroundings. The pale masonry keeps the exterior quiet against the garden, while the more solid street side gives the house a clear boundary. Seen from different angles, the same volume shifts from closed to open without losing its identity. The horizontal facade remains the constant thread, whether the eye follows the brickwork, the overhangs or the line of the terrace along the water.

A villa shaped by privacy and openness

What stays with you is the contrast. One side turns inward and protects the interior; the other side opens fully to the garden with broad glazing, a terrace and the rectangular pool. The house does not try to blend those two conditions into one neutral image. It makes the difference legible. That is why the composition feels precise: the closed front facade, the horizontal brickwork and the large glass openings each have a clear role, and together they define the modern villa without any excess.

Even in a single view, the project reads in layers: masonry, shade, glass, paving, water. The exterior is controlled, but it is never static. Light shifts across the brick, the overhang sharpens the upper line, and the garden side opens the volume when the view turns away from the street. The result is a contemporary villa that uses a restrained palette and a strong horizontal order to hold privacy and openness in the same architectural frame.

Source notes: shell construction by Romar; photography by WIT.