Their Mediterranean Courtyard House Is Warmed by the Sun and Cooled by Sea Breezes

Guillem and Arantza Pujadas spent years looking Spain’s Costa Daurada for a house that matched their household’s way of life. With three kids, they wished a spot the place household life, work and their love of the outside may naturally coexist.

Guillem, founding father of Shaka Surf Castelldefels on the Catalan coast, has constructed his life across the Mediterranean, and he prioritized having a every day connection to the water and the pure panorama. Arantza works as a doula, supporting ladies and households by way of being pregnant, delivery and the postpartum interval, and he or she dreamed of a peaceable dwelling that would accommodate her observe.

Collectively, they imagined a residence with an edible backyard the place they may host pals—and the place their kids may develop up with room to discover. They visited loads of homes with lovely sea views and beneficiant layouts, however none felt proper. “We regularly realized none of them introduced collectively all the pieces we had been searching for,” says Arantza. “So we determined to construct it.”

The household discovered an uncommon, L-shaped lot overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Whereas the southern edge supplied spectacular gentle and coastal vistas, its slender footprint made constructing a normal household dwelling unattainable with out taking over many of the out of doors house.