Dye Fore 1 by Acebal Canney Arquitectos & Asociados
Dye Fore 1 rises on the Dye Fore Golf Course in La Romana, Dominican Republic, shaped by Acebal Canney Arquitectos & Asociados as a residence tuned to land and light. The angular house stretches across the irregular plot, opening broad views toward the fairways, Altos de Chavón River, and distant horizon. Water, art, and breeze-driven comfort set the tone for a home conceived as both retreat and living gallery.
Water traces soft reflections across still ponds as the villa steps out toward the golf course, each angular plane catching light at a slightly different angle. Breezes move freely between open volumes, drawing the cool of the pool and reflecting ponds deep into the heart of the house.
This house is a contemporary villa in La Romana, Dominican Republic, set within the Dye Fore Golf Course and drawn by Acebal Canney Arquitectos & Asociados. The project responds to an irregular plot with layered volumes that orient every major room toward the fairways, river, and far-off horizon. Architecture, landscape, and climate read as one continuous experience, where air, water, and light have equal weight to walls and roofs.
From the first sketches, the project grows as a game of volumes on an asymmetric footprint, treating the plot’s irregular geometry as creative fuel rather than constraint. Angular forms unfold like a deconstructed origami, each fold calibrated to catch a view, temper the sun, or draw in cross-ventilation. Instead of symmetry, the villa pursues balance through variation, letting the landline and golf course views set the primary axes.
Framing The Course
Every primary room turns toward the fairways, treating the golf course as a vast borrowed garden beyond the plot’s edge. Broad openings frame greens, sand, and the sweep of the Altos de Chavón River, so the horizon becomes a constant companion. Terraces, shaded edges, and generous overhangs create a gradation from interior to exterior, giving residents multiple vantage points from which to watch changing light across the landscape.
Water As Mediator
Water settles the villa into its tropical climate, working as both mirror and cooling surface. A long pool and slender reflecting ponds double the sky and palm crowns, visually extending the ground plane while tempering the air around adjacent rooms. The gentle sound of moving water underlines the calm atmosphere, turning circulation paths and sitting areas into quiet episodes of contemplation.
Volumes In The Landscape
The more than two thousand square meters of construction unfold as a sequence of interlocking masses, stepping with the site rather than dominating it. Each shift in height or angle marks a change in use and exposure—public gathering zones open wide to breezes, while more private areas retreat behind thicker planes and controlled apertures. This composition creates a fluid sense of movement, with long views across rooms and out toward the surrounding terrain.
Art, Light, And Daily Life
The villa doubles as a home for the owners’ modern art collection, treating circulation routes and living areas as galleries tuned to daylight and sightlines. Rather than isolating the works, architecture, art, and landscape share the same stage, so a painting might align with a slice of river view or a sculpture stand against water reflections. Everyday routines unfold within this layered setting, where inhabiting the house becomes an extended act of looking.
As the day cools, long shadows stretch across terraces and water, and the broken silhouette of the roof settles back into the wider course. The villa remains open to breeze and view, collected around its planes of water and the distant line of the horizon. In this ongoing exchange with climate and terrain, the house reads as a calm instrument tuned to its surroundings.
Photography courtesy of Acebal Canney Arquitectos & Asociados
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