Villa on Costa Smeralda is a beautiful stone residence located in Porto Cervo, Sardinia, Italy, designed by Stera Architectures.

Description
The wild landscape of Sardinia, its Mediterranean vegetation, the reliefs close to the coast and the large rocky inlets become an architectural synthesis in the project of Stefania Stera, founder of Stera Architectures, for a private villa in Porto Cervo. Between plastic volumes and a complex layout, the house integrates into the territory of Costa Smeralda, with a long view of the sea, opening onto a large, shaded courtyard, protected from the wind and lit only by sunset, around which spaces and terraces articulate for about 350 sqm. The residence is moulded as one of the stones smoothed by the water and the wind on the coast: its grey colour evokes the pebbles and its fluid perimeter now cut out by voids, openings and tunnels, now with projections make its appearance even more spontaneous and closer to the morphology of the place.  “Since childhood, I have climbed Sardinian rocks, of which I know by heart all the contours and fantastic shapes that have nourished my imagination. The house in Sardinia fits into those natural volumes. The client is in tune with these themes and has given me total freedom to create a non-bourgeois arrangement of spaces and uses. I promised him ‘a palace to live barefoot’, which has now taken shape,” explains the director of the Paris-based architec...