CALMA Project
Villas stepped down a hillside above Agios Tychonas, each with its own terraces, pool and view.
We design villas that are worth living in on an ordinary Tuesday, not only in a photograph.
A luxury villa in Cyprus is a building designed against a specific plot, a specific light and a specific way of living outdoors for most of the year. Very little of that transfers from a plan drawn somewhere else.
We start with what the land allows and how the sun crosses it, and we design the house around those two facts. Structure, services and permitting are coordinated with the architecture as it develops, so the villa that gets built is the one that was approved.
Coverage, height, setbacks, slope and access set the outer limits of what a villa can be before a single line is drawn. Where the brief and the plot disagree, the plot usually wins — and it is far cheaper to discover that in week one than in month four.
So the first work is a capacity read: what the land can legally carry, what the ground will cost to build on, and where the good light and the privacy actually are. Everything after that is design rather than discovery.
In Cyprus the terrace, the shade and the transition between inside and out do more work than in most climates. A villa that treats them as leftovers ends up with rooms nobody sits in and a garden nobody crosses.
We plan shade, cross-ventilation and the path between spaces as part of the architecture, not as landscaping applied afterwards. It is the difference between a house that is comfortable in August and one that is merely air-conditioned.
A villa is a long project, and the gap between the design and the finished building is where most of the disappointment lives. Keeping the drawings, the engineering, the permit package and the site inspection with one team closes that gap.
It also means one point of accountability. When something needs deciding on site — and something always does — there is one number to call rather than three parties describing the same problem differently.
Villas stepped down a hillside above Agios Tychonas, each with its own terraces, pool and view.
Six apartments on three floors in Germasogeia, with deep planted balconies that give the façade its rhythm.
Five apartments in an established neighbourhood, organised around a central core and wrapped in curved horizontal bands.