La Marinedda Residence Sardegna by Space4Architecture
La Marinedda Residence sits on a sloping hillside in Sardinia, Italy, where Space4Architecture shapes a new coastal house from local stone and measured light. The single-story dwelling stretches low against the horizon, pairing an A-frame profile with a sheltered courtyard that answers the island’s wind, sun, and sea views. Calm interiors in pale finishes open directly to terraces and planted edges, giving the house a quietly contemporary yet regionally grounded presence.
The approach crosses a soft rise in the Sardinian landscape before the house comes into view as a long, pale line against the sky. A cut through the A-frame roof reveals a deep aperture, drawing the eye straight through the courtyard to the distant sea.
This is a new single-story house in northern Sardinia, Italy, designed by Space4Architecture as a measured response to the island’s coastal climate and local building traditions. Two offset volumes form an A-frame silhouette and cradle a central courtyard, using orientation and massing to temper wind, sun, and views in equal measure. The project leans on simple forms, regional stone, and carefully positioned openings to turn the everyday rhythms of light, shade, and breeze into the core experience.
Shaping House And Courtyard
From the exterior, the house reads as two solid bars linked by a low roofline that frames the horizon. Between them, a sheltered courtyard becomes the outdoor heart of the project, protected from coastal winds yet still open to sky and air. Thick stone walls define this room-like void, while broad openings on either side set up direct visual axes to the water and surrounding hills. The courtyard’s role is both climatic and social, holding shade, gathering, and orientation at the center of daily life.
Stone Envelope In The Landscape
Locally sourced stone wraps the exterior, laid in irregular courses that echo traditional Sardinian construction. The material anchors the low building into the slope and lends thermal mass, moderating daytime heat and releasing warmth as temperatures drop at night. Perimeter walls in the same stone extend into the terrain, creating terraces and quiet outdoor rooms that trace the topography rather than impose on it. From a distance, the house reads almost as a continuation of the rocky ground, with only timber shutters and slim pergola frames signaling habitation.
Calibrated Openings And Shade
Window and door openings follow the calibrations of sun and wind rather than a strict grid. Larger cuts open living areas to the courtyard and the sea, while smaller, higher windows admit steady daylight without glare into more private rooms. Deep reveals, sliding wooden screens, and slender pergola slats layer shade so that light filters rather than blasts into the interiors during hot hours. Operable elements encourage cross ventilation, letting the house breathe naturally as breezes move from hill to water.
Interior Calm And Coastal Outlook
Inside, pale surfaces and restrained furnishings keep attention on views, orientation, and the play of light across walls and floors. A central fireplace block in the living area quietly organizes circulation, with openings on either side maintaining visual continuity to the landscape. The kitchen sits under the same pitched roof, its precise joinery and island volume aligned with a glazed wall that slides open to a stone terrace and outdoor hearth. Bedrooms follow a similar clarity, with integrated benches and storage emphasizing long sightlines to small framed views of hills and sky.
The project remains under construction, yet its essential relationship to context is already legible in stone, shadow, and the measured cut of the courtyard. As the house completes and planting knits into the terraces, the architecture stays close to its first ambition: a simple, durable coastal dwelling tuned to Sardinia’s light, wind, and ground. In that restraint, the residence finds its quiet character along the Mediterranean edge.
Photography courtesy of Space4Architecture
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