Villa Áurea lands on a Tamarindo, Costa Rica hillside with a broad, curving roof and pavilion rooms tuned to the breeze. Designed by Studio Saxe, the house leans into the site’s slope and the coastal climate, using shaded terraces and cross-ventilating corridors to keep interiors cool. It reads relaxed but deliberate, a family home shaped by ocean air and grounded construction.
10º House stands in South Tangerang, Indonesia, with its street face tilted ten degrees to the east and its form cut from textured concrete. Designed by STUDIÉ, the house treats climate, shadow, and material as equal partners in daily life. Rooms gather around courtyards and tall openings that modulate light and privacy, while timber and stone temper the concrete’s weight with warmth.
Island Retreat sits on the oceanfront just a short walk from San Pedro Town, Belize, conceived by The Ranch Mine as a house tuned to coastal life and long visits. The home serves a retired inventor and an interior designer, pairing a main residence with guest casitas and a boathouse for gathering and escape. Built in 2024, it leans on durable construction and tactile finishes that favor breeze, light, and time together.
Salt Pan House stands on the edge of a salt pan in India, composed with quiet rigor by We Design Studio. The house sits between the Chapora River and a mangrove belt, its profile pared back to climate and context. A limited buildable area sharpened every move, turning restraint into a working method and the land into a guide.
V8 House lands in Vinh, Vietnam, as a ground-up house by TNT Architecture that folds family life into a tight urban fabric. Designed in 2020 for three generations, the project uses layered rooms, gardens, and filters to choreograph privacy, daylight, and daily movement. The result is a calm interior world cued to climate and routine.
Pavilion Essoa stands on the lagoon in Jacqueville, Côte d’Ivoire, a house by MOYÉSOA shaped by tropical vernacular thinking and bioclimatic craft. Set within a vast botanical garden, the villa breaks into independent volumes linked by courtyards that invite movement and air. The plan pursues self-sufficiency and modular living, translating local materials and know-how into a quiet, contemporary rhythm that meets the coast’s heat and humidity head-on.
Villa T rests on a hillside in Costa Rica, a west-facing house by Aarcano Arquitectura shaped for the light and breeze rolling off the Pacific. The project terraces across two levels and sets the master suite apart, linking daily life to the slope and the surrounding canopy. This is a house tuned to climate and view, composed of deep eaves, covered rooms, and long moments at the edge.
Located in Canggu, a resort village on the south coast of Bali, Indonesia, The Hollow is a house designed in 2023 by Cowema Studio Architect that reflects a modern tropical architectural style. The villa’s concept derives from the design response to the tropical climate and features a building typology with elements from traditional Balinese architecture, resulting in open spaces that blur the boundaries between the indoor and outdoor areas.
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