Building the Broadview Residence, Start to Finish
From a stepped Coconut Grove site to a 7 bedroom, 6,185 square foot home with water views from every primary room: how Broadview came together, phase by phase, designed, built and finished by one team.
Luxom Studio · LUXOM Developments
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Key takeaways
- The tour clip compresses Broadview into a walk from room to room, but the sequence behind it started on paper, with a site plan that steps down the lot before a single wall goes up.
- Broadview's plan steps down the site specifically to capture water views from every primary room, so the terrace and pool sit directly off the living and dining spaces rather than at the back of a lawn, the same siting logic behind the pool build there.
- At 6,185 square feet across 7 bedrooms, Broadview carries a Contemporary Tropical program, entry gallery, living room, kitchen, dining room, lounge and bedroom suites, all on the same permit set as the terrace and pool.
- Miami-Dade's wind load and impact glazing requirements apply to Broadview's glass walls and balconies the same way they apply to any structural element, which is why that review happens before the finishes anyone sees in a walkthrough.
- One team designing, building and finishing the home end to end is what let the entry, the living spaces and the pool terrace read as a single continuous tour instead of a house assembled from separate contracts.
From the build
The tour we posted of the Broadview Residence walks through the entry, the living spaces, the kitchen and out to the terrace and pool in the time it takes to scroll past it. Here is what actually put that house together, room by room, before it was ever a walkthrough.
The site plan steps down the lot before the house exists on paper
Every Luxom build starts with the site, not the structure, and Broadview is the clearest version of that on our Coconut Grove work: the plan steps down the lot specifically to capture water views from every primary room, instead of reserving the view for a single upper floor or one great room. That decision gets made on paper, in the design phase, because a stepped foundation and framing plan is a materially different engineering problem than a flat one, and it has to be resolved before an excavator shows up.
Once that stepped plan is set, the site work itself, clearing, grading and staking the footprint against Coconut Grove's setback and drainage rules, moves fast relative to how much time it gets in a walkthrough clip. It is the shortest phase in the real sequence, the same as on every Luxom build, because the slow part of a stepped site is the drawing, not the digging.
The structural shell answers to Miami-Dade before it answers to the view
Broadview's Contemporary Tropical language, a cantilevered white concrete upper level over glass walled living space, deep overhangs and open sightlines toward the terrace, depends on a structural shell engineered first for Florida's Building Code, which sets wind load and impact standards for high velocity hurricane zones like Miami-Dade County above what most of the country builds to.
That means the glass balcony rail and the floor to ceiling walls that read as effortless in the tour are, structurally, some of the most engineered elements in the house: impact rated glazing and framing sized to hold up in a storm, reviewed and inspected in stages before a single pane goes in. A stepped, cantilevered concrete form that looks light in a walkthrough is, underneath, built to carry real structural loads at every one of those steps.
Permitting sets the real pace, well before anything is visible in a clip
Permitting and Florida Building Code review is where a Miami-Dade project either holds its schedule or loses months, and almost none of it is visible in a finished walkthrough. Every structural, mechanical, electrical and plumbing set for Broadview had to clear plan review against Miami-Dade's wind load and impact glazing requirements before a permit was issued, and each major phase after that, foundation, structural shell, rough in, was inspected again before the next one could start. On a stepped site plan like Broadview's, that review is one of the biggest levers on how long the whole sequence actually takes.
Systems and finishes get locked in design, not decided on site
Behind the walls, Broadview carries the plumbing, electrical and mechanical load of a 7 bedroom home across 6,185 square feet, all roughed in before drywall, on one schedule rather than room by room as trades became available. The stone, glass and stucco palette that reads as one continuous material story in the tour, the same white stucco and glass language carried from the cantilevered upper level down to the terrace, was chosen during design, not on site during finishing, because imported stone and specialty glazing carry lead times that move a schedule more than framing does.
That coordination is also why the terrace and pool never read as a separate project bolted on to Broadview. The pool terrace at Broadview was drawn as one space with the house from day one, on the same permit set and the same site logistics as the living and dining spaces it sits off of, which is what lets the ground floor open straight into the yard as one continuous space in the finished walkthrough.
Pull quote
Broadview was never a house with a view. The plan was drawn to step toward the water before we decided what any room would look like.
The room by room program comes together on one schedule, then all at once in the tour
Broadview's ground floor plan moves from an entry gallery into the living room, kitchen and dining room, then a lounge, with a bedroom suite also set at grade before the plan opens onto the outdoor terrace and pool. Across the full 6,185 square feet and 7 bedrooms, every one of those spaces was framed, wired, plumbed and finished on the same overall schedule, so nothing was waiting on anything else by the time the finishes went in.
That is the part a walkthrough cannot really show: not the rooms themselves, which are visible enough in the clip, but the coordination that keeps an entry gallery, a kitchen, a lounge and a pool terrace all finishing in the same window instead of trickling in over months. Broadview reads as one continuous tour because it was built as one project, designed, built and finished by the same team from the first stepped line on the site plan to the last stone set on the terrace.
If you want the fuller version of this sequence, our guide to building a custom luxury home in Miami, start to finish walks the general phases Broadview followed, and Coconut Grove's four Luxom residences sets Broadview alongside the rest of that work. For the backyard side of the same build, see how the pool terrace at Broadview was built, start to finish, the full gallery and room by room plan on the Broadview project page, or reach out through contact to talk through what a build like this looks like on your own lot.
Pull quote
Broadview was never a house with a view. The plan was drawn to step toward the water before we decided what any room would look like.
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Questions about luxury home construction Coconut Grove Miami
01How long does it take to build a 7 bedroom custom residence like Broadview in Coconut Grove?
A custom luxury home at this scale in Miami typically runs well over a year from land to move in once design, engineering, permitting and construction are counted together, a sequence we break down in building a custom luxury home in Miami, start to finish. Broadview followed that same order: site and design work first, then permitting against Miami-Dade's code, then the structural build, then the finishes that show up in the tour. It was completed in 2022.
02Why does the Broadview floor plan step down the site instead of sitting flat?
Broadview's site plan steps down specifically to capture water views from every primary room, rather than reserving the view for one great room or a single upper floor. That decision was made before the structure, since a stepped foundation and framing plan is a different engineering problem than a flat one. It is also why the terrace and pool sit directly off the ground floor living and dining spaces, on the same continuous plan as the house instead of at the back of a yard, the logic behind how the pool terrace at Broadview was built as one space with the house.
03What design style is the Broadview Residence built in?
Broadview is built in a Contemporary Tropical style, the same language Luxom uses across its Coconut Grove work: clean concrete and glass volumes, deep shading overhangs, and open sightlines toward greenery and water instead of a closed floor plan. The white stucco upper level cantilevered over glass walled living space, visible from the street, is the clearest expression of that language at Broadview.
04What is actually inside the Broadview Residence, room by room?
Broadview is 7 bedrooms across 6,185 square feet. The ground floor plan moves through an entry gallery, living room, kitchen, dining room and a lounge before opening onto the outdoor terrace and pool, with a bedroom suite also set at ground level. Every one of those rooms sat on the same construction schedule as the terrace and pool outside, which is why the tour reads as one continuous walk rather than a house with a yard added on. See the full room by room plan on our Broadview project page.
05Does Miami-Dade's building code apply differently to a glass walled home like Broadview?
No, and that is the point: Florida's Building Code sets elevated wind load and impact glazing standards for high velocity hurricane zones, and Miami-Dade County enforces some of the strictest versions of it in the country. Broadview's glass balcony rails and floor to ceiling walls carry the same structural review as the concrete frame behind them, engineered and inspected before the finish anyone sees in a tour goes on.
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