"White villas step down the hills above Marbella, all glass balustrades and flat roofs, watching the Mediterranean below. The view is usually the star while the houses blur together, polite boxes that stay out of the way. PERLA flips that script slightly, treating the house itself as a single breaking wave pulled out of the water and pinned to the slope, a sculptural gesture that refuses to stay neutral or disappear into the hillside."
"The client bought an existing project already under submission, which meant STIPFOLD could not redraw the whole building from scratch. Instead, the transformation became conceptual rather than structural, which the studio calls "an act of sculpting energy into stillness." PERLA reinterprets the existing volumes as a frozen moment of a breaking wave, using a new fiber concrete shell and natural stone base to recast the house without rebuilding it."
"Arriving from below, you see the upper floor curl forward like surf over rock, creating a deep overhang that shades the terrace and glass façade. The white fiber concrete shell reads as a suspended ripple, while the natural stone plinth grounds it in the hillside. The house feels less like a box placed on a plot and more like a fragment of the sea that decided to stop moving halfway through a crash."
PERLA transforms an existing submitted villa project into a sculptural form that resembles a frozen breaking wave. STIPFOLD preserved the building’s structure while reimagining its volumes through a new fiber-concrete shell perched atop a natural stone plinth. The upper floor curls forward, creating a deep overhang that shades terraces and glass façades, while the white shell reads as a suspended ripple grounded by stone. Interior spaces use beige fiber-concrete walls and flowing parametric lines that echo exterior geometry, with a restrained palette of white, sand, and pale wood. Custom furnishings and ceiling forms maintain continuous rhythm, connecting rooms like a tide moving through space.
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