Yachting Club Villas at Elounda Beach
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At a glance
- Project by: Davide Macullo Architects
- Location: Crete, Greece
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Yachting Club Villas at Elounda Beach © Davide Macullo Architects View project image |
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Yachting Club Villas at Elounda Beach © Davide Macullo Architects View project image |
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Yachting Club Villas at Elounda Beach © Davide Macullo Architects View project image |
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Yachting Club Villas at Elounda Beach © Davide Macullo Architects View project image |
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Yachting Club Villas at Elounda Beach © Davide Macullo Architects View project image |
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Architect's statement
Located on a spectacular sea front site on the Greek island of Crete, Elounda Beach is one of the world’s leading hotels. The scale of the site is at once both vast and intimate offering uninterrupted views across the Aegean Sea to the horizon yet still benefiting from the sheltering nature of the embracing bay. The Bungalow project is a contemporary intervention on the coast and aims to connect these scales, acting as a link and blurring the boundaries between the land and the sea.
Set back on Crete’s north-east coast, the row of volumes face the water as anchored yachts towards the sea, while addressing and complementing the urban context on the land side. The newly created pathways between the bungalows afford open views to the sea and have a reduced scale that echo the streets of coastal villages of old in a contemporary way.
The strong geometry of the individual units is articulated as a fluid coastal landscape by way of the sequence of rounded surfaces and 45 degree wall lines that carve the depths of the volumes. The system emerges as a new artificial landscape relating the two different conditions.
The use of a natural dark grey stone for the exterior wall cladding on the set the new volumes is keeping in harmony with the local environment while the use of natural materials such as wood and leather interiors enwraps the people in a discreetly opulent atmosphere, in balance with the natural surroundings.
Details/Credits
- Client: Helios Hotel
- Location: Elounda Beach, Crete, Greece
- Function: Bungalows, Resort Hotel
- Site area: 5000 m2
- Building footprint: 3200 m2
- Total floor area: 15500 m2
- Storeys: 2 levels
- Structure (materials): Reinforced concrete, structural steel
- Finish (exterior): Natural stone cladding (walls), Marmorino (soffit), stainless steel columns (316 mirror), fibre glass and titanium separating walls, bisazza tiled pool, teak wood deck
- Finish (interior): Floor: Teak, Ceilings: Leather, Joinery: Teak, Bathrooms: All furniture custom designed and made - Marble, glass and mirror
- Collaborators: Makis Lahanas (Partner Architect), Michele Alberio (Como, Italy), Lorenza Tallarini (Lugano, Switzerland), Marina Ravelli (Como, Italy), Melina Angeletti (Tucuman, Argentina)
- Rendering: Studio D.I.M. Associati (Firenze, Italy)
- Interior design: Davide Macullo
- Contractors: Riccardo Cogliati – Invencta, Shop Drawings (Como, Italy), Realisation B&B (Milan, Italy)
- Lighting design: Ing. Thomas Maissen (Chur, Switzerland)
- Landscape design: Davide Macullo
- Structural engineer: YLTD (Athens, Greece)
- Electrical engineer: LDK (Athens, Greece)
- Pool engineer: Schneider Acquatec (Staad, Switzerland)
- Construction supervision: Diarchon (Athens, Greece)
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