The project is a private villa designed by Studio Seilern Architects on the Greek island of Paros, which blends subtle modernism with modern and traditional details and materials. Surrounded by a poolside courtyard, the villa comprises a series of connected independent rooms that touch the view and offer a beautiful and simple luxury living environment in a natural Aegean setting.

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The villa is located above olive groves on the west coast of the island, its orientation is determined by the August sunset; its solar axis path ends in a cantilever basin on the negative edge of the Aegean Sea. Adjacent pergolas reflect this direction, the bamboo roof is broken by a circular hole hole, bringing light to the hand-carved marble poolside lounge. The surrounding mass of buildings that make up the villa is placed on overlapping slabs of millstone that look as if floating on top of the soil. The bottom of the pool is decorated with rustic mirrors that reflect the Mediterranean sky and transform it into another floating slab.

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The minimal material richness of the building is cleverly derived from the texture. The traditional white stucco ashlar and stone walls are surrounded by Greek marble and millstones at the opening. The windows are made of dense linseed Aliveri marble, inspired by the decorative stone surrounds that mark the entrance of the Parian church, while the benches are sandblasted and chiseled. The proportions of the bones show the calculated variation between the different surfaces of the grindstone, creating subtle but important gradients; the simple arrangement of raw materials provides a level of error and complexity. These careful adjustments provide complexity without overloading the project, giving the landscape a unique shape suited to its coastal location to the home.

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Completed in the summer of 2021, the villa is loved by the owners. Studio Seilern Architects works closely with local contractors, engineers and suppliers to oversee the project through every stage of its design development. Private homes like this provide a great opportunity to build close relationships with clients and design teams. This level of intimacy creates opportunities for interesting experiments, resulting in projects that create opportunities for poetic and personal constructive expression and formal solutions. “The house responds to the wonderful views around it and organizes itself for the August sunset by arranging the layout around the axis of things. We wanted to create a building that seemed to touch the earth gently -- slatted slabs floating around corners with almost no contact with each other.
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