Designed by Idis Turato, this inspiring seafront residence is located in Brzac, on the Croatian island of Krk.

Description by Idis Turato
Bedrock House is a sequestered house for one, for two, for a couple; a house which draws its power and identity from the energy of its location and its own particular scheme. The house absorbs the natural context into which it is placed: the Mediterranean landscape, the topography of the ground, the unobstructed vista of the sea, and employs them as generators of a specific architecture. Situated in the woods, the house becomes a confluence of three different biotopes: the preexisting oak forest, the craggy Mediterranean garden with its plants and the large stretch of water – the pool ? all surrounded by palm trees. The design of Bedrock House arose from the dichotomy between walls and agendas, thus creating space along the course of two walls, underneath two shifted roofs, embodying an architecture constructed at the juncture of transparent and opaque, interior and exterior, closed and open, private and public, recreational and residential.
Bedrock House employs two continuouswalls in order to divide and unite, break away from and come together with the topography as well as the arrangement of activities taking place within the house. It extends from east to west, hiding from and closing off towards the north while fully opening and exposing itself to the south. In between the two tall walls are all the necessar...