Naxos villas

On the island of Naxos, in the Cyclades, Atelier Oï sets three neighbouring villas into the slope of the ground. The whole idea is erasure: the volumes are cut into the relief rather than placed on it, to the point of nearly vanishing from outside. The ground wraps the volumes, the materials stay local, and each house keeps its view while withdrawing from sight. The ambition reads not in the silhouette but in how the building disappears into the Greek hillside without giving up any comfort.