Catalonian studio RCR Arquitectes has accomplished the primary of eight luxurious pink concrete villas it has designed for the Palmares Ocean Residing & Golf resort within the Algarve.
The Pritzer Prize-winning studio has designed the entire buildings for the seaside resort, together with villas, accommodations and a clubhouse constructing that opened in late 2020.
Though there might be greater than 100 villas in complete, solely eight will come below the title Signature Villas. This one, referred to as Villa 19, is the primary of these eight to finish.
What units the Signature Villas aside is their measurement. Every one boasts 4 bedrooms and loos, sea views, a big non-public swimming pool and a sizeable backyard.
As with the opposite buildings on the Palmares resort, these villas are primarily fashioned of overlapping planes of pink pigmented concrete.
Wall surfaces are angular relatively than curvy, but they nonetheless have an natural really feel. Rooms are designed to fan out from one different, so there isn’t any clear entrance or again to the constructing.
“We’ve created the houses at Palmares not as objects implanted into the atmosphere, however as areas embedded into the topography, framing the panorama,” defined Rafael Aranda, one of many three co-founders of RCR Arquitectes.
“The Signature Villas had been developed with a singular relationship with the exterior pure atmosphere, creating a sense of privilege on this distinctive setting,” he continued.
“It is a feeling that flows all through every house, connecting individuals to the place in a really particular manner.”
The primary of the houses, the two-storey Villa 19, is organised round 9 terraces in order that indoor actions can spill outside.
On the bottom flooring, the kitchen, eating room and front room are organized in sequence alongside the primary three of those terraces.
The swimming pool creates a nature divide between these extra social areas and a ground-floor bed room, which opens out onto three additional stepped terraces.
Upstairs, the remaining three bedrooms every have a terrace of their very own.
The villa’s different options embody minimal floor-to-ceiling glazing, modern kitchens and overhanging roofs that supply pure solar shading.
Palmares Ocean Residing & Golf is backed by developer Kronos Properties. The resort centres round a 27-hole course designed by golf architect Robert Trent Jones Jr.
Every of the resort’s Signature Villas will boast a barely totally different design, developed in response to the distinctive circumstances of every web site.
RCR has additionally developed a normal design for Signature Flats, which might be delivered in a later part of the undertaking.
Based in 1988, RCR Arquitectes is led by Aranda alongside Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta, and relies in their house city of Olot, Catalonia.
Key tasks from the studio embody a “serene and restrained” Dubai condominium constructing and a steel-clad museum in France.
