Barcelona-based Nomo Studio has arranged a collection of bright white cubes to create Villa Catwalk on the island the the Mediterranean island of Menorca.
The house in Coves Noves occupies two piles of bright white cubes placed on either side of a 28-metre-long central block, called the catwalk.

Part external terrace and part internal, the long catwalk block is aligned to frame views of both the sea and the mountains, which sit to the north and the south.
"The platform was conceived as an outdoor space, which would house the most important common areas and could when necessary be protected from the wind through invisible sliding windows," said Nomo Studio.

Either side of the catwalk, cube units described by the architects as "pixels" are arranged on a three by three by three grid and house five bedrooms, bathrooms, the kitchen, garage and services. "Breaking down the program into smaller units made the house look less massive and integrated into the landscape," said the architecture studio.

Above the centre of the catwalk, a large span of column-free roof has been achieved with two steel Vierendeel trusses embedded in the concrete, supporting themselves on hidden steel brackets and cantilevering out five metres above the terrace below.

"The apparent hovering of the roof together with the square volumes give the impression of a balancing assembly of pixels following the natural terrain of the slope," describe the studio

The pla...