Hillside villa,
Benahavís.
A sunken circular lounge set around an open fire — terraced into the slope between the house and the pool.
Concept render · the fire lounge at dusk
A slope, a view,
and too much sun.
The villa sits high on a Benahavís hillside — pale architecture, long sightlines to the sea, and a garden that fell away from the house in a single open drop. Beautiful, but with nowhere to settle: no shade, no centre, nothing to gather around once the light went.
Our brief was to give the slope a heart. We carved a circular room into the level change — a sunken lounge held by a low board-formed wall, an open fire at its centre, and ornamental grasses brushing the edges. The geometry does the work: a perfect circle reads as intention against the loose planting and the rectilinear house.
Drawn before a single stone was set.
The whole garden resolved on paper first — circulation, levels, hardscape and planting masses set in relation to the house, the pool and the view.
- 1 House & main terrace
- 2 Pool house & studio
- 3 Pool & sun deck
- 4 Fire & water feature
- 5 Arrival court & parking
- 6 Ornamental grove
- 7 Stone paths & steps
The circle, to the millimetre.
Setting out for the sunken lounge. Concentric radii hold the fire ring, the curved seat and the board-formed retaining wall — with a single opening cut on axis to the steps.
Materials, kept quiet.
The garden, from every seat.
Approach from the steps Pool deck & sun terrace Grove & arrival court Planting detail Night, fire lit Let's draw yours.
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