Brick, glass and dark timber lines give this land-modern villa with indoor pool garden room a clear edge, but the layout is what shapes the experience. The front side stays closed to the road, while the rear opens toward the landscape and the light beyond it. That contrast sets up the whole plan: a U-shaped villa around an enclosed outdoor terrace, with the house wrapping itself around a protected middle zone instead of spreading outward.

A sheltered courtyard at the center of the plan

The U-shaped villa around enclosed outdoor terrace takes its cue from local farmyard planning, though the result feels tailored to the daily movement between inside and out. The terrace sits partly under cover, so it reads as an outdoor room rather than a leftover strip of paving. From the garden side, the glazed openings pull the eye through to the living spaces; from the road side, the brick volume does the opposite and keeps the house compact and calm. That split gives the plan its rhythm.

The exterior shows a red brick shell with black profiled accents and a roofline finished in slate-like tiles. Large glazed openings interrupt the masonry at key points, especially where the living spaces meet the garden. The glazed facade is not a single flat gesture; it changes with each room, opening wider where views matter and staying more measured where shelter is needed. Around the house, paving and planting soften the transition between built form and garden ground.

The garden room holds the clearest surprise

At the back of the house, the indoor pool garden room turns the most open part of the plan into a covered destination. The pool sits inside a glazed room with views out to greenery, so water, reflections and daylight share the same space. Above it, the traditional wooden roof structure is left visible. The beams and posts give the room a strong linear frame, and they break up the larger expanse of glass without closing it off. It is a simple move, but it carries the room.

Light changes quickly in this space. In the morning, the glazing catches the garden; later, the wood structure casts a softer grid across the ceiling. The pool itself is finished with pale surrounding surfaces, which keep the room from feeling heavy even with the large volume overhead. As a covered terrace with wooden roof structure, the adjacent outdoor zone extends that same logic one step further, linking shade, air and shelter in a single sequence.

Water, timber and glass in one room

The indoor pool garden room also explains the project’s material language better than any general description could. Glass holds the edges open, timber marks the roof, and the lighter stone-like finishes around the basin reflect the water back into the room. The result is not about decoration. It is about making a large interior volume readable at a glance, with each material doing a specific job. Even the posts feel functional, because they organize the view across the pool and toward the garden beyond.

Open-plan living with stone, oak and dark cabinetry

Inside the main living area, the open-plan kitchen and living with large windows keeps the rooms visually connected while still giving each zone its own edge. The kitchen island sits under a darker run of cabinetry, and the stone-topped surfaces introduce a harder line against the oak elements nearby. The palette stays restrained: black lacquered steel, natural stone and oak wood. Instead of competing, the materials are separated by finish and texture, which lets the larger room feel legible from one end to the other.

The island kitchen in dark cabinetry is easy to read in the images. It forms a compact working block with straight fronts, while the surrounding area stays visually lighter through glazing and open floor space. Across the room, the large windows pull in the outside view and keep the plan from collapsing into one enclosed volume. A built-in storage wall continues the clean line of the living space, hiding daily clutter behind full-height panels and letting the main room stay focused on the fireplace and the openings to the garden.

A fireplace wall that anchors the seating area

The natural stone fireplace stands out because it gives the living room a fixed point without overshaping the space. Its surface is more textured than the surrounding walls, and that difference is enough to define the seating area. In some views, the fireplace reads as a broad stone panel; in others, it works as a backdrop to the room’s longer sightlines. With the windows beside it and the custom storage nearby, it sits inside the plan rather than being added on top of it.

Built-in storage keeps the rooms visually quiet

Across the interior, built-in wardrobes and custom storage appear in several places, from the living zones to the dressing and hallway areas. The joinery uses straight lines and dark fronts, which makes the storage recede into the walls instead of standing forward as separate furniture. In the circulation spaces, that approach matters even more, because the house carries a lot of glazing and open sightlines. Storage is used to keep those routes clear, not to interrupt them. The effect is practical, but also graphic.

Seen in detail, the storage solutions are varied rather than repetitive. Some doors are flush and dark, others are set beside lighter wall fields or paired with open shelving. In the hallway, the stair treads and ceiling spots create a tighter sequence of shadows and highlights, while the surrounding joinery keeps the space contained. The same restraint appears in the bedroom and dressing images, where the cabinetry aligns with the room edges and leaves the window openings free.

Rooms for sport and pause, set apart from the main living zone

The house also includes a sport and wellness area, mentioned in the source material as a separate part of the program. That addition extends the plan beyond the main living rooms and the pool room, but it does not change the overall reading of the house. The project still revolves around the U-shaped arrangement, the protected terrace, and the strong distinction between a closed front and an open rear. The extra rooms simply widen the range of use within the same spatial order.

What stays with you is the way the house handles thresholds. Brick gives the outside its weight, glass opens the rear to the garden, and the wooden roof structure softens the transition at the covered terrace. Inside, stone, oak and dark joinery keep the larger rooms grounded. Because the plan keeps returning to walls, openings and sheltered edges, the villa reads as one continuous sequence rather than a series of isolated rooms.