A House That Turns Around Its Light

A few steps from the beach in Biarritz, this Mediterranean style villa organizes its five rooms around a central open air patio, bordered by arcades, which brings light into the heart of the plan and serves as a genuine outdoor living room. The white lime rendered façades, tinted joinery, and terracotta tile floors in the reception rooms form a continuous material language, with no break between inside and outside.

Across one hundred and fifty square meters, three bedrooms are arranged between a ground floor turned toward reception and a more intimate upper level, including a suite opening onto a private terrace facing west. Mediterranean planting set directly in the ground frames the heated pool, extending the architecture down to the water. Here, hosting and withdrawing are never mutually exclusive: the house offers both, effortlessly, to those who know how to use it.