The Terraces
Villa Aurelia
Overview
Villa Aurelia does the opposite of its neighbors on the hill. Instead of one mass cut into the slope, it is three smaller buildings that step down with the existing terraces, linked by a glass walkway that doubles as a gallery.
No part of the house shows more than two floors from any angle, and each outdoor room catches the sun at a different hour. The top building holds the main suite and a private roof terrace.
Inside, the walls are lime plaster left pale, and the floors are the same stone as the retaining walls, so inside and outside read as one surface.
Inside the house
- The three volumes
- Each building is a single room wide. The lowest holds the kitchen and a summer room, the middle holds living and dining, the top holds the main suite.
- The gallery spine
- A glazed walkway links all three, lit from a clerestory above. It carries the art collection and does the work corridors would otherwise do.
- The roof terrace
- Above the top volume, a planted terrace with an outdoor kitchen and the longest view on the plot.
The house through a day
What comes with it
- Three buildings set across the original terraces
- Glass gallery walkway with clerestory light
- Heated 60 ft lap pool
- Summer kitchen and covered dining loggia
- Grove of 40 mature olive trees
- Solar array with battery storage
Around here
- Village center
- 12 min walk
- Saturday market
- 12 min walk
- The beach
- 9 min drive
- Regional airport
- 30 min drive
Arrange to see Villa Aurelia.
Viewings are private and usually late in the day, when the light does the work. Tell us when you are on the coast.
Tomas Vidal
Founder, architecture
Eleven years designing on this coast. Ask him what a plan is doing that the others on the hill are not.
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