Project 11
North Bay Road, Miami
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North Bay Road
The house is arranged around the water.
Lucas residence is organized so that the view is the first thing you meet. Step through the entry and the composition opens straight toward the water beyond, the glazed core framing the horizon the moment you arrive. Every decision in the plan serves that line of sight, pulling the landscape through the house rather than holding it at the glass.
7200 SF
Lead Architect: Cristina Magdaleno
Spaces
The two elevations contradict each other, and that is the point. Toward the street the house is cubic and guarded. White volumes stack and shift, a warm wood screen of vertical battens absorbs the garage until the opening disappears into its rhythm, and a single double-height slot of glass framed in dark veined marble marks the only way in.
Materials are chosen to weather beautifully in a coastal setting. Stone and stucco for permanence. Wood for warmth. Glass for the light and the view it captures.
Toward the water it releases. Thin white slabs cantilever on slim black columns, stacking two levels of shaded terrace until the elevation becomes glass, shadow and horizontal line. Coral stone anchors the far end, rough and pitted, holding the summer kitchen beneath its own slab. The pool runs parallel to the seawall, raised and tiled in blue mosaic, so that terrace, pool and bay read as three horizontal bands from every room that faces them.