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Granite houses on a coastal headland
Olbia, Italy

Sardinia Coastal Residences

Location
Olbia, Italy
Typology
Residential Developments · Private Wellness Residences
Year
2025
Status
Under construction
Client
Residential developer
Area
16,800 sqm
Scale
24 residences

Twenty-four houses on a granite headland, each one planned around shade, wind and the sea.

The headland is beautiful and brutal: full sun, hard wind, no soil. Each residence is planned as a wall to the wind and an opening to the water.

Shared wellness is deliberately modest — a bathing terrace, a shaded walk and a boathouse — because the houses themselves carry most of the programme.

Dwell delivered architecture, interiors, landscape and procurement.

Wellness masterplan
Headland site plan
  1. 01Environment

    Prevailing wind determines the orientation of all 24 plots.

  2. 02Water

    One shared bathing terrace; no private pools on the rocks.

  3. 03Movement loop

    A coastal path links every house to the boathouse.

Shelter, orientation and access to water, planned house by house.

Each point records a wellness decision fixed at masterplan stage.

Drawings
Typical house plan1:100
  1. Wind wall — Solid to the north-west, open to the south-east.
  2. Cross ventilation — Every principal room ventilates on two sides.
Materials
Local granite

Local granite

Lime render

Lime render

Bleached oak

Bleached oak

Wellness features

Designed in, not added later.

  • 01Wind-sheltered outdoor rooms
  • 02Sea-water bathing terrace
  • 03Coastal walking network
  • 04Cross-ventilated houses
  • 05Native planting only
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