Villa Tavolara

The house is arranged as a sequence of terraces rather than a single façade. Each room is judged by how it meets the island on the horizon, and by how much shade it keeps after noon.

Villa Tavolara sits on the upper terrace of Pittulongu, where the gulf opens and the limestone mountain of Tavolara closes the view. The architecture is deliberately quiet: lime-washed planes, deep loggias, and a pool that reads as a second horizon rather than an amenity.

Arrival is from the inland side. A walled court holds the heat, then a single opening frames the water. Living spaces occupy the seaward edge; sleeping rooms step back into the granite, cooler and more private. The material palette is local — Gallura stone, pale render, timber that greys in the salt air.

The plot is planted with juniper and olive already mature enough to cast real shade. Nothing here is ornamental in the tourist sense. It is a house for living through the long season, not only August.