Casa RF anchors a new country house in Salve, Italy, where the Ionian breeze meets dry-stone walls. Designed by Valentina Soncini, the home reimagines the traditional Liama Salentina as a calm retreat for an owner who returns south whenever she can. Earthy interiors, a pool edged in local stone, and a pergola aimed toward sunset turn this rural plot of former olive fields into an easygoing Mediterranean escape.
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.
Verdizela House sits in Marisol, Corroios, Portugal, where the Atlantic breeze reaches a pine forest edge and filters into a quiet domestic world. Estúdio AMATAM arranges this house as a contemporary courtyard dwelling, drawing on Mediterranean and Islamic precedents to pursue calm, control light, and temper the coastal climate. Across its white walls and timber accents, the residence reads as a disciplined retreat for introspective living.
Trullo Svevo sits in the hills above Ostuni, Italy, where architect Francesco Consoli reanimates a traditional house with rare restraint. A cluster of dry-stone trulli regains daily purpose as calm rooms, while a new volume, modeled on a lamia, extends the domestic rhythm into the landscape. The project balances rural craft and present needs without noise.
Maison NI rises above the Port of L’Estaque in Marseille, France, a hillside house by Isabelle Berthet-Bondet. The project steps with the limestone terrain, composing white volumes that hold daylight and open wide to the southwest view. Terraces stitch the rooms to the outdoors, and crafted woodwork steadies the bright, mineral palette. It reads calm and resolved.
Villa in Sorrento sits within a historic garden above the Bay of Naples, its 1950s bones refreshed by Architetti Artigiani Anonimi. The house in Sorrento, Italy, opens to the greenery and the sea, recast as a flexible, light-steeped retreat for daily life. It’s a house by type, yet every move favors a relaxed, vacation cadence.
Casa del Sol sits in Conil de le Frontera, Spain, a house by Steyn Studio that draws its plan and poise from the sun. The project threads courtyards through a low, stone-lined ensemble and crowns it with a latticed central volume. Materials do the talking here, from Andalusian limestone to clay tiles that temper glare and heat, while timber and woven textures warm the interiors for relaxed coastal living.
Valencia, Spain-based architect Pilar Martí has designed a house that fully restores its facade while recovering a courtyard that had been buried during its 14-year rundown, along with reinserting the building’s steeply pitched Spanish tile roof. Named House in Cabañal, the home showcases elements of Mediterranean living, featuring both an east-facing patio that serves a thermoregulator of the building, and a staircase containing volumetric and spatial games that form a nuclear element of the home.
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