Lior is a private villa on the coast of Mytilene, designed by Trichonas Architecture directly above the shoreline. The building sits low and horizontal, organized around a sequence of flat-roof volumes that read from above as an extension of the landscape rather than an interruption of it. A rooftop pool aligns with the sea beyond, collapsing the distance between structure and water into a single continuous plane.
CATEGORY | Residential
CLIENT | Trichonas Architecture
COMPLETION | 2024
White plaster volumes are broken by vertical timber screens that filter light and define the threshold between interior and terrace. The screens do two things at once: they give the facade its rhythm and they keep the living spaces shaded during the hours when the Aegean light is at its most direct. The pool terrace anchors the ground level, its water surface reflecting the building and the sky in equal measure.
Inside, the same restraint continues. Materials are kept close to the landscape — stone, timber, neutral plaster — and the openings are sized to frame specific views rather than expose everything at once. The transition from interior to terrace happens without a hard threshold, through covered outdoor areas that belong to both sides of the wall. IDAA developed both exterior and interior visualization for Lior, working with the quality of Aegean coastal light as the primary condition the renders had to get right.
