It’s not everyday that you see a house that trumps every other house you’ve ever wished you lived hands down. The Villa F is a holiday home in Rhodes, Greece so the location is rather perfect too. Designed by Peter Thomas Hornung, Elsa Katharina Jacobi and Jan Escher this amazing work of architecture sits only 3 meters above a coastal road overlooking the sea. The things I would do for this.

The holiday home was designed for a couple. They wished a separate area for guests, which we mostly embedded in the given topography by integrating the shady tree population and without generating an equally visible volume.

At first sight the typology of the building seems to be strange compared with the context. However this first impression will be refuted by the choreography of the building, which is precisely orientated at the context. While from a formal point of view the building relates to the found eroded rocks and washed away shoreline, the entrance was generated by an interruption in the continuous natural stonewall, which leads one at first „under“ the site.

Skylights show the path up to the main living area. The generated twist focuses our sight towards the ocean, whereas the surrounding walls only serve as a frame of the context. Thus a spatial division of the different uses was avoided where possible, as well as a differentiation of interior- and exterior spaces. Most important was to prevent a limitation of the magnificent view.