Villa on Costa Smeralda, Sardinia

The wild landscape of Sardinia, its Mediterranean vegetation, the reliefs close to the coast and the large rocky inlets become an architectural synthesis in the project of Stefania Stera, founder of Stera Architectures, for a private villa in Porto Cervo. Between plastic volumes and a complex layout, the house integrates into the territory of Costa Smeralda, with a long view of the sea, opening onto a large, shaded courtyard, protected from the wind and lit only by sunset, around which spaces and terraces articulate for about 350 sqm. The residence is moulded as one of the stones smoothed by the water and the wind on the coast: its grey colour evokes the pebbles and its fluid perimeter now cut out by voids, openings and tunnels, now with projections make its appearance even more spontaneous and closer to the morphology of the place.

The ground level is made up of separate blocks, with sleeping areas that enjoy maximum privacy, and arranged above this ‘as a bridge’ develops the upper level, dedicated to the living area and completed by two large suites with bathrooms. The external walls of the villa are almost entirely in smooth, anthracite grey plaster, which harmonises with the granite used for the entrance and some of other outdoor spaces. Contrasting with this camouflage is the use of small ceramic tiles, hand-decorated with light blue, blue and turquoise patterns, which define indoor and outdoor areas with a strong Mediterranean feel. There are also wood, polished resin and natural marble claddings of different types, in large, luminous ambiences dominated by the colour white, where the boundaries between inside and outside are lost and merge in the enhancement of the panorama.