Garden House
Rather than levelling the slope, the house steps with it. It withdraws to the upper terrace and gives the old stone garden terraces the leading role — framing the valley and the pines while daily life extends outside beneath deep shade.
- Location
- Mount Lebanon
- Year
- 2023
- Category
- Villas
- Status
- Concept study
- Services
- Architectural concept · Interior direction · Landscape direction
The house lines the upper edge of the plot, freeing the southern terraces for garden, sun and view. Living and kitchen open through a glazed face onto a sheltered terrace, so the mountain and its old retaining walls stay present from within.
Materials are local and weathering: rough mountain stone at the base, warm timber above, and plaster that takes the cool light of altitude. A house built to age into its terraces — and into the seasons of Mount Lebanon.
The images above are atmosphere and material references by Unsplash photographers, part of a temporary sample presentation. Image credits.