House Design Beach Road 1

Beach Road 1 is beach house design that located in Jupiter Island, Florida, USA and was designed by Scott Hughes Architects. Description from Architect: “Home manifests itself at a variety of scales, such as the sumptuous restraint of the 11,120 square foot residence at Beach Road, reflecting the changing moods and needs of site and user. The house strikes a fascinating equipoise between solid and diaphanous, anchored and hovering, defying gravity and the mundane while respecting a conscious aesthetic rigor. Two-story high limestone walls ground the building within the gracious lot that affords generous views to the water. At the same time, post-tensioned concrete beams allow for the east façade to be pierced by multiple 10-foot tempered butt glazing with unobstructed views underscoring the sense of release into the surroundings.

Completed in 2003, this beachfront home located in the heart of an established resort community provides a seasonal residence for a family and diverse guests. Exquisite materials including pear wood and Italian limestone complements and fine craftsmanship in a responsive design that affirms the sensibilities of its denizens. The approach invites a sensory interactivity with the materiality of the structure, and a cerebral appreciation of the boundless optimism that brought the house to fruition.

Residents enjoy a multiplicity of interior options in terms of use and sociability. The house is divided into three, two-story pavilions connected by one-story hallways. The configuration affords simultaneous opportunities for entertaining and privacy in a home designed to accommodate frequent entertaining. Even the expansive living room, whose undulating ceiling reiterates the natural vocabulary of the tidal ebb and flow, affords varied moments and niches for convivial sociability, or quiet contemplation of the view. This conscious nod to the flexible spaces of Mies van der Rohe’s own free-flowing structures allows for residents to arrange their chairs in an intimate gathering around the elegant limestone fireplace on evenings when the air from the ocean is chill. Or to throw open the doors of kitchen to expand the space to the pool courtyard to accommodate animated afternoon soirees.

The connection of interior space and outdoor living is explicit in the configuration of structure to courtyard and pool. A sheltering breezeway implies and effects a cooling shade. The structure serves as a visual and visceral guide from heart of the space to the exterior court. The pool cabana frames the space in counterpoint to the seeming infinite reflections of sky and water of the turquoise pool. This same cinematic framing is reiterated elsewhere in the house reinforcing the dynamic and the timeless, directing views and capturing light in a harmonious embodiment of presence and being.

The surrounding landscape is spare in its treatment, rolling lawns and tasteful trees and shrubbery at the periphery and serves as a visual liaison between the scenery that is the borrowed landscape and the structure itself. Not unlike a stage set, the house manifests a series of shifting planes and volumes, a careful orchestration of negative and positive, which capture and create a play of ambient light and shadow, a dramatic arena enlivened by the presence or absence of people.”