Brickwork sets the tone before the glass takes over. The country villa combines rural masonry with wide openings, and the change in depth is easy to read across the plan. A closed front keeps the house sheltered from the nearby road, while the rear opens toward the landscape. That shift gives the country villa with indoor pool its strongest architectural move: a U-shaped layout that wraps a partially enclosed terrace and creates a protected outdoor room between the volumes.

Brick volumes and glass openings

The exterior reads as a sequence of brick masses, roof planes and glazed insertions rather than a single block. Large windows cut into the masonry and bring light deep into the rooms, while timber posts and frames soften the transition at the terrace. From the garden, the house sits with a measured presence: solid at the road side, more open where it faces green views. The balance is practical, but it also gives the building its rhythm. This is a modern country villa that uses openness only where it counts.

In the corner where the volumes meet, the covered outdoor area acts like an intermediate space. It is neither fully inside nor fully out. Glass doors, a roof overhang and the sheltered terrace line up to form a place where the house can extend into the garden without losing enclosure. The project takes its cue from a local courtyard house type, but the reading is more architectural than nostalgic. Brick, glass and timber remain the main elements, and each one is clearly visible in the elevations and the terrace zone.

A covered terrace that works as a threshold

The partially enclosed terrace is one of the clearest parts of the composition. It sits inside the U-shape, framed by masonry on one side and broad glazing on the other, so the outdoor space feels held rather than exposed. The structure above it is visible in the photographs as a wooden frame that carries the roof edge and marks the shift from garden to house. That makes the covered terrace with glass more than a passage. It is a usable middle ground where the plan turns inward and outward at once.

Seen from the side, the terrace and garden room relation becomes even clearer. The glass walls catch reflections from the surrounding greenery, while the brickwork gives the composition weight at ground level. A thatched canopy appears in one of the outdoor views, adding another layer to the roof line and emphasizing the sheltered character of the outside areas. The result is not a decorative courtyard, but a spatial device that organizes the house. It is where the U-shaped villa becomes legible.

Light, timber and the edge of the plan

Timber details appear where the architecture needs a softer edge. They are visible at the terrace structure, in the garden room and in the interior roof construction above the pool. Against the brick, the wood changes the register of the house without breaking it apart. The glazing keeps the visual connection open, but the frame language stays calm and direct. That is also where the project avoids overstatement. It relies on proportion, openings and surface changes, not on extra gestures.

Open-plan kitchen living with stone and oak

Inside, the plan opens around the kitchen, dining area and living room. The rooms connect without heavy separations, and the materials do much of the work. Black lacquered steel, natural stone and oak define the surfaces that carry the eye through the interior. On the floor, the stone reads as a continuous base, while darker wall elements and built-in pieces anchor the room. The open-plan kitchen living arrangement keeps the social spaces together, but the layout still lets each zone hold its own shape.

The kitchen shows this best. A central island sits under pendant lights, with a stone-look worktop and a darker backdrop that sharpens the outline of the cabinetry. Large glazed doors nearby pull daylight across the work surface and toward the rest of the interior. In the living area, a fireplace set in a stone-like surround and a textured dark wall give the room a lower, more grounded register. The material palette stays restrained, but it gives the house a clear sequence of surfaces and levels.

Details that hold the rooms together

Small changes in finish carry a lot of weight here. A dark wall beside the stair, a wooden door set into the hall, and the broad stone floor all appear in the interior images as part of one continuous language. Nothing is overdrawn. The stairs are visible from the hall, and their timber treads give a practical note to the circulation space. This is where the natural stone and wood interior becomes most convincing: not in a single statement, but in the way each material is placed where the plan needs texture, contrast or depth.

The bathroom continues that reading with a freestanding tub and a darker, textured wet-room wall. It is a smaller space, but it follows the same discipline as the rest of the house. Surfaces are kept calm, edges are sharp, and the focus stays on the relation between light stone, dark planes and clean openings. Even in this room, the project avoids excess. The materials remain consistent with the rest of the villa, so the interior never breaks into separate styles or moods.

The garden room with pool as a second interior

The most striking enclosed space is the garden room with pool. Here, the architecture shifts again: glass walls, a blue pool shell and a timber roof structure create a room that feels suspended between leisure space and extension of the house. The ceiling beams are visible, and they give the room a clear structural order. Because the glazing reaches out toward the garden, the water is read against the trees and lawn outside. It is a controlled space, but not a closed one.

Closer views of the pool show built-in steps and a sharp rectangular outline. Dark wall planes set off the water and make the glass doors easier to read. The room carries a different temperature from the main living spaces, but it is still part of the same architectural sequence. The indoor pool garden room is not isolated as a showpiece. It sits within the plan as one more volume in the U-shaped composition, with timber overhead and transparent edges that keep it visually linked to the rest of the house.

Wellness spaces kept in the same material language

Alongside the pool, the house includes a sports and wellness room. The source material does not push it into the foreground, and the page should not either. What matters is that the villa extends its programme beyond daily living without changing the basic language of brick, glass, wood and stone. That continuity is visible in the photographs of the interior circulation and in the pool zone, where darker finishes and large transparent surfaces keep the atmosphere measured. The project remains a country villa with indoor pool, but it is clearly designed for more than one routine.

In the exterior views, the house returns to its main idea: solid brick volumes on the outside, large glazed openings where the plan opens up, and a courtyard-like centre that ties the parts together. The rear façade faces the landscape, while the front remains more closed. That contrast gives the building its clarity. Across the whole project, the U-shaped villa works through simple architectural moves rather than gesture. Brick, timber and glass do the heavy lifting, and the indoor pool garden room gives the composition its most memorable interior moment.