Modern House Design Blending Stone, Steel and Wood into Modernist Box with Glass Walls

stone wall design

This unique, bright and  modern house demonstrates a contemporary architectural design with beautiful glass walls and a gorgeous material combination that includes natural stone, steel frame and wood. Modern house design is developed by GASS Architecture, offering beautiful living spaces that harmoniously blend with mature trees that surround this cottage in South Africa.

Modern house is located on the Westcliff Ridge in Johannesburg. The cottage features a steel-framed pavilion structure. It is 2 bedroom dwelling, nestled away in its wooded surroundings, the house offer a lush home and a private and tranquil hiding place in the trees with magnificent views of Johannesburg.

Steel framing was a natural choice of construction method. The strong house structure is combined with an elegant, timeless aesthetic that allows to use the steel elements not only as primary structural elements, but also as the primary architectural motif.

Modern house design with floating stone wall

Modern house with glass wall design
Bedroom with glass walls and wooden deck

The floating stone wall design is one of the beautiful house design element that differ a simple modernist box from other houses. The wall made from stone harvested on the site itself looks harmonious, balancing the modern house design and adding more interest to architectural design.

The wall design creates an innovative element that does not rely on the ground at all for its founding, creating a visual illusion of floating in the air stone wall.

Bathroom design with glass wall

  by Ena Russ   
   02.09.2021

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