North Bay Village FL

The rooftop pool is the first thing you notice, and it is meant to be. Cantilevered beyond the building line, glass-sided, it floats above the double-height living room and casts moving reflections through the interior at certain hours of the day. It is an engineering fact and a spatial effect at the same time.

 

Below it, the house is organized vertically, three levels plus a garage, on a compact waterfront lot in North Bay Village. The constraint is the lot size. The response is to stack the program and let each floor find its own relationship to the water.

The ground level is given to the pool terrace, dense tropical planting, and a dock large enough for a yacht. The main living floor sits one level up, with floor-to-ceiling glass, double- height ceilings, and an open plan that runs from the kitchen through the living and dining areas to the bay.

 

The material palette is restrained and warm. Natural tones, clean white surfaces, wide-plank flooring. A wine room sits adjacent to the kitchen, visible through glass, functional and precise. An elevator connects all levels, which matters in a house built for daily life, not just for photographs.

 

The landscaping wraps the property in green. From the street, the house reads as a series of horizontal planes and deep overhangs. From the water, it is glass and light. The rooftop pool, lit from below at night, crowns the composition and gives the house its silhouette against the Miami sky.