Project 05 / Unbuilt concept study

Courtyard Residence.

A sheltered open centre draws light into the depth of the home and makes room for daily life outdoors.

Architecture / Residential

The intention

A room beneath the sky.

How can the centre of a home provide light and an outdoor place to gather?

Courtyard Residence places an open centre at the heart of the home. Living spaces gather around it, borrowing light and making a sheltered outdoor room part of everyday use.

The courtyard offers a different kind of outlook: close, planted and changing through the day. Deep openings and shaded edges allow a gradual movement between the rooms and the open air.

Material continuity holds the arrangement together. The emphasis is on the relationship between spaces, with the courtyard giving the home a shared point of reference.

Discipline: Architecture
Focus: Courtyard living and borrowed light
Material language: Natural stone / timber / lime-toned plaster
Concept setting: An inward-looking planted garden
Study scope: Residential plan, thresholds and brickwork