Curved walls and arching ceilings enclose indoor and outdoor living spaces arranged over several stepped levels at this villa in Menorca by architects Nomo Studio.
Curved House's elevated setting in the high-end residential area of Coves Noves provides it with views towards the sea and the nearby town of Port d'Addaia.
Top image: the holiday home has a cubic shape. Above: the home was built around an archaeological site
The client bought an undeveloped lot and asked Nomo Studio to design a summer villa containing four bedrooms, with a covered outdoor area linked to a small pool.
The 600-square-metre site presented several challenges, including a steep gradient. It also contains an area of archaeological importance that needed to be conserved. Openings in the facade create terraces
Nomo Studio responded to the sloping plot and small building area by creating a house with a compact footprint that is carefully shaped to avoid the restricted area.
"The curved shape of the house started as an answer to try to avoid the protected area on the site," architect Karl Johan Nyqvist told Dezeen.
"By curving the house on the ground floor we could avoid the archaeological site but still maximise the footprint. We then continued with the same language in three dimensions."
The walls and ceilings of the house are arched
The property resembles a cube with sections removed, as if by intersecting with giant spheres. The resulting curved and double-curved geometries lend th...