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Villa No. 2, A contemporary hillside villa where one stone carries the house, the walls and the drive.
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Villa No. 2

A contemporary hillside villa where one stone carries the house, the walls and the drive.

PROJECT
Location
Corfu
Discipline
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Stone
Cream-to-ochre limestone
Photography
Our own, on site
  • Facade cladding
  • Curved retaining walls
  • Boundary walls
  • Cobbled drive
  • Stone-faced stair
THE WORK

Crisp white volumes clad in pale cream-to-ochre rough-faced limestone, laid in an irregular polygonal pattern with flush pale mortar. The same stone runs unbroken through the curved retaining walls, the boundary walls and the cobbled drive, so the whole site reads as one piece of masonry.

The villa sits on a terraced slope above the sea among olive, oak and cypress, with an infinity pool and stepped stone terraces facing the islands across the water. The cladding was hand-fitted piece by piece, including a stone-faced external stair.

BEFORE / AFTER

From bare groundto finished stone.

Scroll to watch the site become the building, stone by stone.

AS FOUND TO FINISHED, VILLA NO. 2
THE PHOTOGRAPHS

Shot on our own site.

Every photograph below is this project as built, nothing staged, nothing borrowed.

Cream limestone crazy-pattern cladding in low golden light, with narrow vertical windows, a glass balcony and the cobbled drive below.
Cream limestone crazy-pattern cladding in low golden light, with narrow vertical windows, a glass balcony and the cobbled drive below.
White modern volumes over curved stone-clad base walls, a gravel forecourt with a lone oak, and the sea and mountains behind.
White modern volumes over curved stone-clad base walls, a gravel forecourt with a lone oak, and the sea and mountains behind.
Stone-clad volumes with a large square picture window reflecting trees and sky, above a stone-paved forecourt.
Stone-clad volumes with a large square picture window reflecting trees and sky, above a stone-paved forecourt.
A stone-clad corner with a glass window above, dappled branch shadows raking across the limestone and cobbled paving below.
A stone-clad corner with a glass window above, dappled branch shadows raking across the limestone and cobbled paving below.
A large dark glass square reflecting clouds and an olive tree, framed by cream polygonal limestone with pale mortar joints.
A large dark glass square reflecting clouds and an olive tree, framed by cream polygonal limestone with pale mortar joints.
A tall pier half-clad in irregular cream limestone over its concrete frame, a red ladder resting against the wall.
A tall pier half-clad in irregular cream limestone over its concrete frame, a red ladder resting against the wall.
Stone cladding being applied to the external staircase wall, scaffolding around the concrete frame and masons among the stones.
Stone cladding being applied to the external staircase wall, scaffolding around the concrete frame and masons among the stones.
The stone boundary wall part-built at dusk, scaffolding on the upper storey and an oak tree in the foreground.
The stone boundary wall part-built at dusk, scaffolding on the upper storey and an oak tree in the foreground.
Looking up the stone-paved driveway between curved limestone retaining walls, with cypresses and white pergola terraces above.
Looking up the stone-paved driveway between curved limestone retaining walls, with cypresses and white pergola terraces above.
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