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  • 5 villas on Ios island, close but not in an immediate relationship to the sea, are each designed as a mini holiday resort on its own. Within the protective stone walls of each unit, a private landscape is created where internal and external spaces intertwine.

    The two bedrooms volumes define the typical Cycladic island scale, but the living, dining, cooking and bathroom areas are all mixed with the external areas of the villa including the large swimming pool, all under a large protective pergola.

    The island landscape is brought into each unit through the local stone walls, the pool tiling reminiscent of the rocks on the sea shore, the olive tree and the view towards the hills on the one side of the introvert unit that is open to its surroundings. Sense of local nature is further enhanced through the intensive use of wood, pebble stones and actual rocks.

hideout villas
hideout villas
hideout villas
“within the protective stone walls of each unit, a private landscape is created where internal and external spaces intertwine”
hideout villas
hideout villas
hideout villas
hideout villas
“the pool tiling reminiscent of the rocks on the sea shore”
hideout villas
hideout villas
hideout villas

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credits

location
Ios island, Greece

client
Farout Hotel & Spa

design
2020, completed 2021

design team
Tasos Gousis
Joost Frijda
Eddie Roberts
Fotini Anagnostou
Orestis Kalonaris
Fotini Iliopoulou

structural & mechanical design
Margarita Zakhaiou

lighting design
Rania Macha

photographs
Aris Ziotopoulos

linear flow under construction

13/12/2021

embassy of ireland

1/10/2020
A subtle sense of Ireland in the recently completed refurbishment of the Embassy of Ireland in Athens.

hidden hill published

6/4/2020
Hidden Hill project in Naxos has been covered and published in KTIRIO magazine!

happy new year!

1/1/2020
GFRA wishes you a happy and creative 2020!

we are live!

1/12/2019

Redesigned and fully responsive new GFRA website is now online!
Wonderfully designed by two de. and skilfully developed by dual.design

symposium

2/11/2019

GFRA is proud to support the Socially Engaged Design for Disaster Relief symposium at the Benaki Museum

cards

18/9/2019

Play Scrabble with the new GFRA cards designed by two de.

danish embassy

10/7/2019

A small project for the Danish Embassy in Athens has been completed. Light and minimal "Danish design" not to interfere with the existing embassy building.

open house

5/4/2019

Open House Athens is on its way! Featuring both the Norwegian and the Australian embassy!

Check out the spot on Youtube!

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