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Villa No. 9, Serpentine tiered walls terracing an olive hillside, built around the trees.
Retaining & Structural Walls

Villa No. 9

Serpentine tiered walls terracing an olive hillside, built around the trees.

PROJECT
Location
Corfu
Discipline
Retaining & Structural Walls
Stone
Cream-white rubble limestone
Photography
Our own, on site
  • Tiered retaining walls
  • Cut-stone gate pier
  • Pool platform walls
  • Tree-preserving wall lines
THE WORK

Pale cream-white limestone laid in random rubble coursing forms long serpentine tiers of retaining wall, terracing a steep olive-covered hillside above a narrow village road. The mature olives were preserved and built around, including one ancient gnarled specimen at the gate, where a wrought-iron entrance hangs on a cut-stone pier.

Above the walls sits the finished villa with its pool on its own stone-walled platform. The set documents the full arc from raw excavation to the completed estate.

THE PHOTOGRAPHS

Shot on our own site.

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

Raw hillside excavation cut through red earth among the olive trees, concrete formwork at left and sun flaring overhead.
Raw hillside excavation cut through red earth among the olive trees, concrete formwork at left and sun flaring overhead.
Serpentine pale limestone retaining walls curving up the hillside between olive trees, warm evening light raking the stone.
Serpentine pale limestone retaining walls curving up the hillside between olive trees, warm evening light raking the stone.
A freshly built limestone retaining wall showing its random rubble coursing, stone slabs stacked along the top, an olive tree at left.
A freshly built limestone retaining wall showing its random rubble coursing, stone slabs stacked along the top, an olive tree at left.
Tiered curved limestone retaining walls seen from the road, an olive tree on the upper terrace and the villa's glass balustrade at top.
Tiered curved limestone retaining walls seen from the road, an olive tree on the upper terrace and the villa's glass balustrade at top.
A black wrought-iron gate hung on a cut-stone pier, an ancient gnarled olive tree preserved within the curved limestone walls.
A black wrought-iron gate hung on a cut-stone pier, an ancient gnarled olive tree preserved within the curved limestone walls.
A graded earth terrace on the steep slope, with a neighbouring peach-coloured villa and the hillside village beyond.
A graded earth terrace on the steep slope, with a neighbouring peach-coloured villa and the hillside village beyond.
An excavator digging into the white rock face beside the narrow village road in fading dusk light.
An excavator digging into the white rock face beside the narrow village road in fading dusk light.
The full entrance sequence of iron gates, stone piers and sweeping retaining walls along the road, villa terraces above.
The full entrance sequence of iron gates, stone piers and sweeping retaining walls along the road, villa terraces above.
The completed limestone walls along the road on an overcast day, the open gate and driveway curving up to the villa.
The completed limestone walls along the road on an overcast day, the open gate and driveway curving up to the villa.
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