Rankin Art & Design Group LLC
A Home Centered on Connection
The home is conceived as a quiet framework for connection—to nature, to light, to one another, and to the rituals of everyday life.
Rather than placing the landscape around the architecture, the design brings nature into its center. A protected courtyard becomes the heart of the home, organizing living spaces around water, gardens, fire, and sky. Deep horizontal overhangs extend the architecture outward, creating shade and shelter while dissolving the boundary between inside and out.
Place to Feel Safe, Connected + Grounded
The home is conceived as a quiet framework for connection—to nature, to light, to one another, and to the rituals of everyday life.Rather than placing the landscape around the architecture, the design brings nature into its center. A protected courtyard becomes the heart of the home, organizing living spaces around water, gardens, fire, and sky.
Deep horizontal overhangs extend the architecture outward, creating shade and shelter while dissolving the boundary between inside and out.From the central living spaces, long visual axes move through the courtyard and pool toward the landscape beyond. Stone, wood, glass, and slender dark metal are intentionally restrained, allowing sunlight, shadow, vegetation, and changing seasons to become the most expressive materials of the house.
The result is a home that feels grounded rather than imposing, intimate despite its scale, and inseparable from the landscape.Nature + Light + ConnectionA home designed from the inside out, with the courtyard as its heart and the landscape as its horizon.
At the center of the home, the courtyard becomes its primary organizing element. Interior spaces gather around water, gardens, terraces, and fire—creating a protected outdoor room at the heart of daily life. From the main living spaces, the pool establishes a strong central axis extending through the house and into the landscape beyond.
The Courtyard as the Heart
Architecture for Daily Ritual
Ultimately, the project is less about individual rooms than the experiences between them: waking to filtered daylight, crossing a courtyard, opening an entire living room to the landscape, working beside a garden, gathering around fire, or watching the house glow across the water at night.
Private spaces turn inward toward smaller gardens and protected views. The primary bath is organized around its own walled garden, transforming an everyday ritual into a moment of privacy, daylight, water, and nature. Bedrooms similarly balance openness with enclosure—connected to the landscape without sacrificing intimacy.
Rooms of Retreat
Framing the View
Views are intentionally composed rather than simply exposed. Openings align through rooms, courtyards, and landscape to create moments of compression and release. The central living room frames the pool and golf course almost as a living landscape painting—changing with the light, weather, and seasons.
