Set between two natural gorges (avlákia in Greek), the house occupies a sloping site on Antiparos’s western edge, with expansive views across the Cycladic archipelago and direct exposure to the island’s northern winds. The design responds to these conditions through a carefully calibrated balance of exposure and concealment, making decisions of visibility central to both the experience of inhabitation and the building’s relationship to the landscape. Despite a generous programme—seven bedrooms distributed between a main house and a guest house, alongside two pools and extensive outdoor living areas—the residence reads as deliberately restrained from a distance with a large part of its volume partially embedded into the slope, local stone construction and planted roofs grounding the project in its terrain.

The main house is organised as two distinct yet interdependent volumes. A low-slung, stone-built cluster houses the private quarters, with four bedrooms arranged around a sheltered courtyard in a village-like configuration. In contrast, the communal spaces are contained within a two-storey, whitewashed volume that emerges more assertively from the slope. Its prismatic form, articulated through subtly angled walls and trapezoidal openings with deep reveals, lends the building a sculptural presence animated by a shifting choreography of light and shadow as the sun moves across the sky. Between the two volumes, a broad stepped stairs linking the entrance drive to the pool terrace below acts as a spatial hinge between public and private life. Oriented toward the sea, it also functions as an informal amphitheatre, introducing a sequence of outdoor spaces integral to daily life.

A separate guest house, set slightly downhill and accessed via an outdoor staircase carved into the landscape, contains two additional bedrooms and its own pool terrace. Fully embedded into the slope, it reinforces an approach in which architecture operates as a continuation of the land rather than an imposition upon it. That same sensibility carries through to the project’s construction, where vernacular building traditions are treated as a working method rather than a stylistic reference. Local materials, craftsmanship-led construction methods, passive cooling strategies, and planted roofs inform a sustainability strategy rooted equally in environmental performance and cultural continuity.

The result is an island property that feels both grounded and quietly elevated: a measured response to place, climate, and the evolving architectural culture of Antiparos itself.