Spanish firm YLAB Arquitectos has redeveloped a holiday home in Maresme, southeast Spain, to make the most of the coastal mountain-range views.

According to studio co-founder Yolanda Yuste López, the Scandinavian client's brief was to create a comfortable but luxurious holiday home that takes its cues from hotel design.
It also needed to be able to accommodate get-togethers with friends and family.

The main house, which sits at right angles to the garage and guesthouse, incorporates a flat roof that juts out at first-floor level, curving around a tree on the terrace and reaching across to touch the secondary building.
YLAB Arquitectos changed the internal layout of the existing 1980s house and removed partition walls. The main spaces are largely open plan, with large sliding doors, connected by corridors on each floor that run the entire length of the house's long axis.
These corridors provide sight lines throughout the entire building and, on the ground floor, open out onto the large terrace and pool through sliding glass doors.
The large floor-to-ceiling windows on the ground floor and neutral materials used both inside and out help to visually link the interior and exterior areas. The window at the far end of the corridor perfectly frames a lemon tree ? a recurring motif throughout the design.

In the middle of the house, the glass-sided staircase zig-zags across a vast window that forms one side of an internal courtyard containing a mature olive tree, almost bring...