Villa Tramonto by GAA Architects
Located in Coral Gables, Florida, this Mediterranean-style villa was designed in 2016 by GAA Architects.
Description by GAA Architects
Villa Tramonto is named after the road it confronts, historic Sunset Drive in Coral Gables, Florida. This is not just another commissioned project but the residence of husband-and-wife, architects and a very personal architectural essay. Being born and raised, for the most part in the Latin American and the Caribbean; they felt almost a personal duty to exalt the region’s’ heritage in their personal home.
Coral Gables is the project?s contextual background. A garden city endowed by its founders with the tradition of a grand Mediterranean Revival architectural style and the planning of City Beautiful Movement. The architectural heritage of the city is reflected in a monumental, striped Mediterranean urbanite massing. The area’s still prevalent mature hammocks and preservationist attitude to nature are recalled in the buildings vernacular detailing and motifs. The wood-framed Cracker tradition is therefore adopted at the component level; a tradition more rural in nature. Civic and domestic mingle.
The residence is composed of three separate living units deployed around a central courtyard. The main, frontal, 2 story wing housing the fundamental functions; a one story guest house along the side street and a one story, covered terrace, wing connecting the two.
There is formal Sunset Drive entry porch tha...
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