Sea Front

This building is a one-story villa on a site with a great location overlooking the sea.   living, dining, kitchen, private room, bathroom and study planned on the north side where can see the sea. Each room has a large opening sash that seamlessly connects the terrace, pool, basin and the sea, and sees beautiful sea views. The south side plans to take in the wind while avoiding direct sunlight by planning a courtyard in the living, dining, and kitchen so that direct sunlight does not enter the building directly.   Because the site has a road between the site and the sea, it is solved by raising the first floor level 2.5m from the road surface to ensure the sea view from each room and not to see the building from the road. In o... More

The house is implanted on a sea front lot below street level, thus hiding its volumetry, and is built around a quadrangular patio that protects it from the sea. The upper storey is the only visible element of this house that tries to keep as abstract and closed to the outside as possible.   The patio organizes both the social program of the house — developed in an open space concept between living room, dining room and kitchen — and the more private program — the bedrooms — to which is added a multifunction room aimed at absorbing other uses.   The topography and the difference in level in relation to the street allowed the west side of the house to be completed with a pool that adds thickness to the re... More

The Line is a new build development of two detached beach houses on the sea front at Winchelsea Beach, East Sussex. The pair of houses are three stories and arranged with the living accommodation on the top floor to maximise the incredible views out across the beach. The top floor has floor to ceiling sliding glass doors leading out onto a large terrace looking out to sea. The properties are each named Mavericks and Cloudbreak, after well know surf’s in California and Fiji with the two being referred to collectively as The Line. Winchelsea Beach is mainly a shingle beach with views across Rye & Winchelsea Nature reserve and to Dungeness beyond. The area is designated as a highly protected SSSI which attracts a vast range of migr... More

The cottage holds a special place in contemporary Norwegian culture. A few generations back the majority of the Norwegian people made a living from farming, fishing or lumbering, trades which afforded closeness with nature. In the contemporary and urbanized way of life the cottage is a means maintaining this closeness. This particular cottage is modestly sized with its 60 square meters, and thus a sustainable structure both in terms of material usage and energy consumption.The building sits amidst marshland, sea-adjacent rock and scattered pine- and juniper-vegetation. An important consideration in the project was to avoid interfering with this sensitive surrounding terrain. It heals slowly due to climatic factors. The cottage lies 21... More

Sea Front Villa gets its name by being a unique front line luxury property overlooking the sea. It’s located in Quinta da Marinha, a well-known selected resort in the Estoril – Cascais area, considered the Portuguese Riviera for its lovely dune extended beaches, ancient enchanting palaces and refined lifestyle.Laying in a plot of land of 3.050 m2 and built area of 1.068 m2, this twelve room family house was intended to be a showcase for elegant, contemporary architecture and design. In order to fullfill this expectation, the project would respect the amazing beauty of the sea view and nature surroundings, by using pure, well framed lines, big volume of fenestration and glass, as special feature.To serve this indoor- outdoor dialectic purpos... More

Marina de Empresas is located at the port of Valencia, Marina Real Juan Carlos I. More precisely, in the old bases built for the participating teams of the America’s Cup in 2003. David Frutos The project is an urban regeneration exercise where 3 of the old bases were transformed. To that end, we introduced the "soul" of the buildings: a circulation piece at the south, with sea views, which works as a great balcony to the Mediterranean and connects two of the three volumes. David Frutos Due to its proximity to the sea, the main design factor was the use of durable materials resistant to environmental aggressiveness: FRP (Fiber Reinforced Plastic). It is an innovative architectural material but has traditionally been used fo... More

Marseille, a muse for feats of architectural daringWe do not always realize it, but the port city of Marseille is a fertile ground for exceptional architectural creations. An area that has inspired and attracted the greatest architects throughout history. In keeping with this heritage, La Marseillaise by Jean Nouvel forms part of an urban landscape marked by striking buildings, such as Cité Radieuse by Le Corbusier, Fernand Pouillon’s apartment blocks in the Old Port, Mucem by Rudy Ricciotti, Villa Méditerranée by Stefano Boeri, Sir Norman Foster’s Ombrière – a symbol of the renewal of the Old Port – or even the FRAC contemporary art center by Kengo Kuma. Located at Les Quais d’Arenc, facing the sea and reaching to the sky, La Marseillaise... More

A strong design urban project indicating the doctrinal lines within which the project has to draw its own identity. Thus the sociological functioning of the ground floor faces both the sea front and the Mediterranean hall. The design is horizontal in order to avoid competing with Fort St Jean. The views, the sea, the sunshine, the minerality must all be orchestrated through a programme which will be both federating and cognitive. First of all a 72-metre sided perfect square, it is a classical Latin, Greek or oriental plan controlled by Pythagoras. Inside this square, is another 52-metre sided square, housing the exhibition halls and conference rooms identified as the heart of the museum. Around this, beneath it and over it are the servic... More

With a property located directly opposite the sandy shoreline of a secluded beach, the primary drive in designing a new home on this site is obviously to provide the strongest possible connection from within the house to the beach and sea beyond. With the proportions of the block favouring its depth rather than its frontage, the challenge became one of best providing this connection to all of the living accommodation zones, whether to the front or rear of the house. Further consideration was needed to providing an outdoor space protected against prevailing winds and sea breezes, where one can sit comfortably outdoors, enjoying the beach environs regardless of Melbourne’s changing weather moods. The resulting plan form with living area... More

The park of theogony is awarded with the first prize in a greek architectural competition for the reconstruction and development of Ammoudara sea front in Crete, organized by the municipality of Malevizi. After analyzing all the charasteristics of the area, we searched to find a parameter that could lead to a unified design. We were looking for an idea that was going to act as a link between the present, the past and the future. We finally realized that our choice has always been in front of us, both physically (the Giouxtas mountain and the Dia island) and historically (Idi mountain). Mythological and historical references show that there has been a strong bond between Crete and the father of all Gods , Zeus. These bond is clear especially... More

This project is a small real estate development located in Mui Ne, a seaside holiday destination in Vietnam’s south east coast. The site has a trapezoidal shape 110 meters deep between the ocean and the road and 42 meters along the beach. The sea front view is amazing and unusual for a private residential project in this area, usually occupied exclusively by resorts and hotels. The idea was to maximize this potential with semi-detached sea front villas and keep a large part of the land as a “buffer” landscaped area to prevent noise from the road. The construction is composed of 3 units: Two 3 bedrooms villas, and one 4 bedrooms villa, each with a private 10mX3m swimming pool. The construction was raised to 1.8 meter from the beach level... More

The concept is based on the knowledge and idiosyncrasy of the place, how the sea front is used, and the customs and habits of the people of Adra. The importance of the harbour mouth, the Green and Red lights, all of them important spots of th etown for walk and recreation. The construction of a gazebo element that point to the mouth of the harbour arises, giving a view of one of the local atractions, because with the sunset, there are many locals that go for a walk on the promenade, enjoying the drop of temperatures and watching fishing ships going out to the sea. Therefore, what it is sough tis to create a Chiringuito that allows to enjoy this alive picture, as well as enjoy the local gastronomy To reach that objective, parametri... More

Τhe Museum becomes a spatial narrative based on experience; it awakens mind and fantasy, it brings fragments from the depths to the surface and transforms them to knowledge. The concept is a ‘continuous flow of diving and emerging’, from the level of the sea to its depths and back again to knowledge. A continuous flow of people, via escalators sculpted to the body of the Silo, gives rise to the ‘sea level’ placed on top. Visitors rise, enjoy the view of the horizon and enter the mysterious world of the Museum in order ‘to dive to the sea-depths’. A large internal void, sculpted through vertical concrete-ribs in reference to the Antikythira Mechanism, becomes the heart of the museological narrative. A continuous belt of ramps winds around... More

The “Hotel da Vila” is a small hotel, located in Ponta do Sol, a village on the southwest coast of the Island of Madeira. It stands on the sunny sea front of the village, with magnificent views of the Atlantic Ocean. It has fifteen double bedrooms. The building was almost complete when the nearby “Estalagem da Ponta do Sol” a member of the “Design Hotels™” decided to manage it. Using local materials and craftsmanship, the architects created the ground floor café/ bar, the reception areas and designed most of the hotel furniture, including the rooms. Wood and stones from the surrounding mountains were used to make some of the objects and furniture. Working on a very tight budget, the design was kept simple and raw, using inexpensive m... More