Private House | Andreas Eleftheriou

The house is located on a 800sqm residential plot, 10 minutes from the busy city of Limassol and the sea, in a new residential area called "Mesovounia". Meso - (middle) vounia-(hills) means the area between two '>http://hills.Our'> Client was a young couple with 2 small children, and their main requirements for a detached 3-storey house in a 800sq.m. plot. The main influence of the design direction was the use of canopies and the cantilevered covered verandas of some iconic modern houses such as, Frank Loyd Write's Waterfall House. The house has a double zoning concept of "upper and lower" and "north and south". In other words the middle and lower levels of the house are the more "public" areas (livings areas, kitchen, dining etc), and the upper level is the more "private" area (bedrooms etc). The north half of the house is the more "closed", (kitchen, internal staircase, laundry, WCs, storage etc) and the south part is the more "open" (living room, games room, BBQ etc). Main living areas and the Master Bedroom are extended by the covered verandas through large openings and the projection of the interior space to the exterior areas is the main characteristic of the project. The long horizontal lines of the verandas clearly define the house's levels and they form a harmonic synthesis with the slope of the plot. The main living room in the middle level designed as the heart of the house, functioning as a sitting area as well as a circulation junction connecting the middle floor with the lower pool area through the sculptural staircase. Light grey colours are used for interior and exterior surfaces and white colours emphasis the strong horizontal lines. The colour-texture palette is completed with the use of local stone, wooden parts for the pergolas and light green glass windows. The result is a functional house with open and closed parts, public and private spaces, forming a closed relationship between the house and its external environment as with uninterrupted views to the sea.