Villa Cala Tarida
Built on a steeply sloping site, this private house was designed to reveal an architecture informed almost entirely by the topographies of its site. Looking west towards the sea, its rooms fan out towards these views. The house itself is organised around two routes. The first consists in a volume with the living spaces, kitchen and guest room, all on the same level. The other consists of a volume only for the main bedrooms of the house, with a small communal space. This internal axis follows the contours of the site and forges these two volume spaces into a continuum, starting with the top bedroom level and ending at the underground garage.
This villa mixes traditional materials – wood, stone and white walls - with modern industrial components. Employing a similar formal vocabulary, the exterior has been treated with local vegetation. This villa is equipped with double flux ventilation in collaboration with other climate control elements to make it eco-friendly and easy in maintenance.
Since its completion in 2014, the planting around both the main house and retreat has been allowed to grow relatively untamed, so that now both structures appear to have receded into the surrounding landscape. The house’s natural surroundings have encouraged this process.
