le persiane
Every morning, you open the painting.
Every window that faces the sea has a pair of louvred larch shutters, painted shutter green, with brass hooks. A deep stone reveal you can sit in. Open them, and the room fills with the Adriatic.
Bečići · Budva · Montenegro
Scroll to open the shutters
Every floor has its own sea.
A white house on a stone field above Bečići, on the Montenegrin Adriatic.
the idea
A white house on a stone field.
The plot is called Kamena Njiva, the stone field: 3,878 m² of hillside in Bečići, about 660 metres from the sea.
We are designing one house on it. Ground and four floors. White lime walls, fine white stone around every window, and green shutters that open onto the Adriatic.
From 1420 to 1797 this coast was Venetian. Its builders used rough local stone for the walls and fine white stone for every opening. We build the same way.
la quota
Rise with the house.
Scroll, and you climb floor by floor. With every floor, the sea rises higher over the rooftops of Bečići.
Ground floor
1.6m
eye height
Concept views. The real view from each floor will be photographed by drone from the plot itself.
le ore
The same terrace, three hours.
Dawn turns the bay lilac. Noon makes it glass. Golden hour sets the white stone glowing.
la casa
Five white terraces on the slope.
The house steps back floor by floor, like the dry-stone terraces of the Budva hills, so every floor has a deep terrace and nothing stands between it and the sea. Olive trees stay on the plot. Cars go underground.
- Land
- 3,878 m²
- Floors
- Ground + 4
- To the sea
- about 660 m
il pavimento
The tile tells the floor.
Each floor has its own hand-glazed majolica, 20 by 20 centimetres, in sea ink, aqua and shutter green on white. You know your height by your feet.
- UlivoGround floor · the olive
- OndeFirst floor · the waves
- SoleSecond floor · the sun
- PersianaThird floor · the shutter
- OrizzonteFourth floor · the horizon
At handover, every owner receives one tile of their floor, on a brass key.
le stanze
White is the room. Colour is what you touch.
Burnished lime plaster, white terrazzo underfoot, oiled oak and linen. Colour comes only from what you touch: a green shutter, a tiled wall, one pink flower on the sill.
la piscina
A pool that ends in the bay.
On the roof, a white pool with a waterline of ink and aqua majolica. Its far edge disappears, and the water carries on into the Adriatic.
i materiali
Ten materials. Nothing else.
- 01Stone from the site, laid dry
- 02Fine white limestone
- 03Marmorino lime plaster
- 04Venetian terrazzo
- 05Hand-glazed majolica
- 06Larch shutters
- 07Chestnut and oak
- 08Unlacquered brass
- 09Clear glass
- 10Linen and striped canvas
l'indirizzo
Bečići, between Budva and the open sea.
Bečići is the long sand beach just south of Budva. The plot sits on the hillside above it.
- The sea
- 11 min on foot
- Budva Old Town
- 11 min by car
- Tivat Airport
- 30 min by car
- Podgorica Airport
- 80 min by car
Times measured on OpenStreetMap routes, without traffic.
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il secondo capitolo
Maine: a few white villas among the olives.
Up the hill, in Maine, 5,279 m² of meadow, orchard and woodland, about 1,300 metres from the sea. The second chapter: five or six low villas, each with its own garden and pool, and green all around.
register interest
Be the first to see the view.
Leave your name and we will write to you first: the drone views from every floor, the plans, and every step of the project.