Excerpt: Cliff Front 7, a hospitality architecture project by Alexis Dornier, blends tropical modern design with the natural landscape. This four-bedroom villa features 100-year-old reclaimed teak, ironwood, andesite, terrazzo, local limestone, and floor-to-ceiling windows. Its standout feature is a polygonal shading element, creating a semi-covered transition space that connects indoors and outdoors.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] As part of the expansion of the Uluwatu Surf Villas, Cliff Front 7 (CARBON HOUSE) has been designed in collaboration with Tim Russo. The overall design is a result of applied challenges through plot boundaries amongst the natural landscape.
This tropical modern villa consists of 4 bedrooms and maintains a consistent palette of 100-plus year-old reclaimed teak from Java, reclaimed ironwood from Kalimantan, andesite, terrazzo, local limestone, and floor to ceiling windows. The predominant gesture of the house is it’s polygonal shading element, which introduces a transition space, semi-covered and connecting the indoors with the outdoors.
Various folds in the roof give a sense of protection and privacy, and each bedroom bares it’s own signature as a result of the project’s overarching architectural narrative. Cladded with reclaimed teak, the ceiling gives a stark contrast to the limestone walls that pick up the geometric theme on another scale – a big puzzle of individually cut stone plates that are sourced from a quarry nearby.
An expansive garden scape cascades from the angular infinity pool, back dropped by the Indian Ocean. Custom furniture was created to fit into the building’s unique angles. This villa houses a collection of oversized framed art by Andy Davis.
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