Mirage Villa on Tinos, Greek Architecture, Property, Building Images
Mirage Villa on Tinos
Island Residence and Roof Pool in Greece- design by Kois Associated Architects
11 Nov 2016
Mirage Villa
Kalavrita is a picturesque mountain town surrounded by natural beauty.
Design: Kois Associated Architects
Mirage Villa on Tinos, Greece

A residence designed under an infinity pool

Recent winner of the 2016 American Architecture Prizes, the Mirage project is a poetic effort to reconcile nature and architecture. It concerns an island house with a unique design intention. A residence fused with its surroundings, which not only documents and highlights the region?s identity, but also acts as an illusion of the natural environment, an almost invisible construction camouflaged under a water tank. It is an experimental intervention on the island landscape, with the pure intention of leaving it almost intact, due to an implemented design strategy and a targeted selection of building materials. Also known as the ?Island of Madonna?, Tinos has a rich theological history and is the third largest island of the Cyclades complex. Within its rocky landscape more than 40 villages and more than a thousand churches can be found, lit under the Greek sky, scattered across the hilltops like fragments of ancient ruins. The scenery is lined by thousands of kilometers of drystone walls, as if embroidered on the rocks, which complete a unique landscape.
The residence is situated on a steep sloped rocky...