Lyvin Uluwatu brings together aesthetics, functionality, engineering innovation, and respect for Bali’s natural landscape and culture. Lyvin Properties’ architects were given a rare kind of freedom with this project — a blank slate “to design the ideal hotel under ideal conditions, a place” where they themselves would want to live. That premise is what shaped the whole character and ambition of the complex.

Sweeping panoramic windows face the ocean, the spaces are generous and full of light, and every material is natural and local. Together, they set the stage for what feels like the perfect getaway. Guests can slow down here and lose themselves in the view, with every detail of the hotel carefully thought through, so they get total immersion in Bali's landscape without giving up an ounce of comfort.

Here, the architects drew on the best of two worlds: the European, with its rational, innovation-led approach and its roots in modernism, and the Balinese, with its tactility, organic imperfection, and distinctive materials. Fused together, those two influences produced something expressive and unmistakably its own.

The site sits on a cliff slope with a roughly 15-metre drop in elevation, a real challenge during designing, but also what made it possible to fully unlock the ocean views and work with the terrain’s potential.

This project pushed the architects to rethink nearly every convention of building on Bali. The complex's standout feature is its unconventional spatial planning: the goal was to maximise interior volume, let in more light and air, open up the best possible ocean views, and stretch height and floor area as far as they'd go. Their solution was a single corridor serving two floors, which frees up around 20% of total floor space. Every apartment ends up facing both the sunsets and the ocean, which only deepens that sense of openness and connection to nature.

The interiors carry the same logic through. Elegant, elongated proportions, with all the built-in furniture tucked into custom niches so every line stays clean and sharp, with nothing sticking out. Local ironwood, prized for its density and rich texture, shows up throughout the surfaces, alongside wood panelling reclaimed from old truck cabins; cleaned up, reworked, and turned into interior cladding. That's where the signature local palette comes from: ochre for the wood, beige for the stone.

The window frames are mounted onto the facade rather than set into the wall opening, which wipes out the visual frame from inside and all but erases the line between the room and the ocean beyond it. A tropical garden is also planned between the residential buildings, bringing that sense of living among greenery into the shared spaces and making them feel like part of the landscape itself. The project is still in its early stages and will be finished by 2028.