London-based Studio Seilern Architects has completed a villa on the Greek island of Paros, designed as a cluster of white cube-shaped forms that are oriented to follow the setting sun over the Aegean Sea.
Located next to an olive grove in Makra Myti on the island's southwest coast, Paros House was designed to be a "beautiful and simple luxury living environment", finished in traditional white stucco and Greek marble.
Paros House is a villa in Greece designed by Studio Seilern Architects
The spaces of the villa are organised around an east-west axis designed to follow the path of the sun throughout the day in summer.
Cutting through the centre of the site, this axis begins with an entrance ramp to the east and ends with a long, thin infinity pool that extends westwards towards views of the Aegean Sea. The villa has views oriented towards the sea
A bamboo pergola is punctured by a single oculus that brings sunlight into the otherwise shaded poolside lounge, finished in hand-chiseled marble.
Around this central axis, the spaces of the villa are designed as stand-alone rooms with their own entrances, set on stepped platforms of terrazzo that lead down to the pool terrace.
"The surrounding built volumes that comprise the villa are placed on overlapping terrazzo slabs, which give the appearance of floating above the soil," explained Studio Seilern.

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