Holiday residences
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about holiday residences
Project • By Alem arquitectura • Housing
House in Portonovo
In this project we had to combine, not only the needs of the client, but also the key factors of the environment: urban regulations, local architecture, access, views, climate, orientation and the proportions of the site.
Andrián Capelo Cruz
The façade to the main road is connected to a technical area where access is placed. This is where the open garage for two cars, the facilities, the pantry and the laundry are located. These spaces improve thermal performance and protect the house from cold winds from the north, as well as providing privacy and acoustic insulation from street noise.
Andrián Capelo Cruz
The daytime living areas are arranged on the ground floor facing south, directly connected to the... More
Project • By Kapsimalis Architects • Private Houses
Two Summer Residences in Imerovigli
The two holiday residences are located in the traditional village of Imerovigli, on the island of Santorini. They are parts of a single old house that was destroyed during the 1956 earthquake. The remaining caves inside the volcanic earth that used to compose the old house are reconstructed, keeping unchanged the initial architecture form of it. The two houses face South to the volcano and to the Aegean Sea.
The entrance, in the level of the pedestrian street of the village, leads to the terrace of the houses and through two exterior staircases to the level of the houses’ yards, as it emerges, due to the fact that the plot is downstream the pedestrian road and placed on the steep incline of the island’s Caldera. The old... More
Project • By buerger katsota architects • Private Houses
Houses A•2
On the Cycladic island of Paros, within an area under natural protection, the conversion of two degraded 8-room rental studio complexes into two quality holiday residences required careful renegotiations on several scales and architectural dials. The scheme, with regards to massing and articulation, combines proportions and composition of cubic volumes, repetition and standardization of openings, generous outdoor shaded spaces and the use of environmentally friendly materials in order to redefine the complexes’ expression, achieve a plasticity of form but also an architectural unity that respects Cycladic architecture, adopts to the landscape and responds to the demands for contemporary holiday living.Each building is rearticulated as an as... More