Residential · Modern Farmhouse
The Oloolua Farmhouse is a five-bedroom contemporary luxury residence that draws on the formal vocabulary of the modern farmhouse — complex gable rooflines, natural stone, generous glazing — and pushes each element to its architectural limit. The result is a home that feels deeply rooted in its landscape while being unmistakably of its moment.
The exterior is defined by a dramatic multi-gable dark tile roof with expressed timber rafters at each gable peak, contrasted against white rendered walls and natural limestone cladding at the main entrance and chimney stack. Black-framed floor-to-ceiling glazing runs the full length of both the front and rear elevations, dissolving the boundary between interior and landscape at every turn.
To the rear, a covered entertaining terrace the full width of the house opens directly onto a formal lap pool and manicured lawn — a composition that works equally well for family living and large-scale entertaining. The master suite wing, set apart from the main body of the house, commands its own garden outlook and private terrace.
This project was delivered as a full Design+Build engagement — from concept through working drawings, county approvals, contractor management, and site supervision — by Aalis Studios.
Three principal elevation renders showing the full architectural composition of the residence from every major orientation.
The design brief for The Oloolua Farmhouse was deceptively simple: build a home that feels like it has always been there. That kind of rootedness is not achieved through pastiche or decoration — it comes from working with the geometry of the land, choosing materials that age with dignity, and letting natural light do most of the architectural work.
The multi-gable roof was the first decision. Each gable is precisely calibrated in pitch and proportion — steep enough to read as bold architecture, shallow enough to stay in dialogue with the horizontal landscape around it. The dark tile surface and expressed timber rafters at each peak give the roof mass and texture without weight.
The stone used at the entrance and chimney is the same material throughout, laid in a horizontal ashlar pattern that draws the eye upward to the glazed double-height volume above the front door. Inside that volume, a sweeping staircase is visible from the approach — architecture announcing itself from the first moment of arrival.
The Oloolua Farmhouse is available as a starting point for a bespoke commission — or we can design something entirely unique to your plot, your landscape, and your vision. All projects are BORAQS-stamped, county-submission ready, and available as Design+Build packages where the design fee is absorbed into construction.