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Yachting Club Villas at Elounda Beach

This is a project by Davide Macullo Architects and it is located at Crete, Greece. There are ten images for Yachting Club Villas at Elounda Beach.

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Designer'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)