A small house built
around daylight.
A quiet home gathered around
a planted courtyard.
ALDER PRACTICE — 2026
01 / EXTERIORA single storey, open to the sky.
EAST–WEST / AT COURTYARD CENTERSCROLL TO UNFOLD THE HOUSE ↓
Through the roomsWhole house
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Material study
35° N · equinox · solar time · north at −ZIllustrative daylight; no site is implied.
THE ORGANIZING IDEALess house.
Less house.
More outside.
The courtyard is the first room. Everything else finds its place around it.
Living spaces catch the southern light. The bedroom and study sit to the west. An oak-lined threshold brings you from the street into a small, planted world.
Choose a room to see a perspective from the same model.
01 / PALE LIMEWASH
02 / NATURAL OAK
03 / WARM TERRACOTTA
A quiet material palette.
One architecture. Two ways to give it warmth.
PROJECT NOTES / 001
Courtyard House
A fictional residential study by Alder Practice.
All views are drawn from one authored model.
A printable HTML sheet with the current view and floor plan.
- External footprint
- 12.20 × 10.20 m
- Gross enclosed footprint
- 110 m²
- Clear courtyard
- 3.80 × 3.80 m / 14.44 m²
- Wall thickness
- 200 mm
- Wall height / roof depth
- 2.80 m / 180 mm
- Orientation study
- 35° N · March equinox
- Selected materials
- Pale limewash + natural oak