Summer season Villa by Kapsimalis Architects performs on conventional Greek whitewashed homes
The white, blocky type of this vacation villa by Kapsimalis Architects is meant to be a “modern translation” of the chalky homes seen round Santorini, Greece.
Summer season Villa – which varieties a part of Santorini’s current Andronis Arcadia lodge – has been designed by Kapsimalis Architects to seem as a “synthesis of cubist white volumes”.
The 600-square-metre constructing is located on the northwestern tip of the island within the small city of Oia, looking over the Aegean sea.
“The primary goal of the challenge was to design the villa as a continuity of the remainder of the lodge,” defined the follow.
“It is a modern translation of the normal structure discovered within the villages of Santorini.”
The villa has subsequently been constructed as a cluster of pale, rectilinear volumes. A few of its exterior structural partitions are punctuated with rectangular openings or intersect to type open-air walkways across the villa.
Varieties of untamed grass and spindly olive bushes have been planted alongside the constructing’s roof, serving to it mix into the encompassing hillside.
Internally, the constructing has been merely divided into three ranges. The highest ground accommodates a single visitor suite, from which a slim channel of water runs out in the direction of a non-public sunbathing space.
A stairwell illuminated by an overhead skylight results in the bottom ground.
It performs host to an open-plan communal space, decked out in pure tones and supplies to evoke a “summery, snug sense that conforms to island life”.
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The eating room is centred by an extended, timber desk, whereas an oval, rattan pendant-lamp dangles straight above. A sand-coloured sectional couch seems within the adjoining front room together with a wicker armchair and a few potted crops.
Massive panels of glazing entrance the complete area. These might be slid again to grant entry to the villa’s principal pool, which is surrounded by a variety of cushioned daybeds and solar loungers.
Shut by lies an outside consuming space that is shaded by a picket pergola.
Three bedrooms are additionally positioned at this stage, every that includes headboards crafted from white ceramic blocks printed with geometric shapes.
Bogs have been accomplished with pure stone basins and woven baskets that retailer additional linens.
A plant-lined slope then runs right down to an L-shaped basement stage that accommodates a fitness center, spa-style room for massages and one other two bedrooms.
Summer season Villa is one in every of a number of tasks that Kapsimalis Architects has accomplished in Santorini, a vacation spot which continues to draw hundreds of thousands of vacationers year-round.
Final yr the follow refurbished a vacation dwelling within the village of Imerovigli, which boasts a sequence of cave-like dwelling areas, whereas in 2015 it erected a small block of flats on the facet of the island’s Profitis Ilias mountain.
Pictures is by Yiorgos Kordakis.