Sunday Escape - Elliptic House - In the south of Portugal

A geometric shape, a volume sculpted by the landscape.

Elliptic House is not just a beautiful house overlooking the ocean, but it is also a kind sculpture, perfect example of contemporary architecture.

Designed by the Mário Martins Atelier studio and completed in 2014, this building, located in Luz, in the Algarve, in the south of Portugal, seems almost shaped by the wind and the sea. Its particular intense white structure, in fact, has such a design fluidity and lightness to reflect the balance between fullness and emptiness, weight and airiness, light and shade, between the real and imagined, between physical and virtual spaces.

The way the house is carved by the light transmits and the fact that its two floors are set in a complementary corner gives it the feeling of being weightless as if it were constantly moving.