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Working in collaboration with Coast Architects, we have designed this five-bedroom villa and two-bedroom guest house in the Leeward area of Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Drawing on a contemporary Caribbean style, the villa employs deep overhanging eaves and pergolas to provide shade from the sunshine, while the doors and windows are orientated to take advantage of the prevailing winds across the site. The guest house sits to the rear of the site atop a double garage and store. In front of the living area and main bedrooms is a two-part swimming pool, with a shallow area for small children and sun loungers and a deeper area for swimming, across from which is a cabana, fire pit and barbecue area.

The house is predominantly clad in white render, with a Wallaba shingle roof. A flat-roofed native stone-clad slot containing a cantilevered staircase sits between a two-storey bedroom wing and the main central open plan living area. This slot extends out across the front of the garage and guest house and along the ground as a timber path. Internally fabric wallpaper and white painted walls are paired with natural materials such as a warm grey stone floor, and dark timber trims and cabinetry.

The project has been approved by the TCI planning department and a building permit issued, and full construction information has been produced.

Alongside Coast Architects, we worked closely with the client to develop the most suitable design and layout for this new beach front residence located in the stunning Emerald Point area of Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos Islands, which is to function both as a home and a wedding venue. A large central open-plan living, dining, and kitchen area can be opened up directly onto the pool terrace while secondary kitchen areas provide additional food preparation space for events. The villa has six bedrooms, each with en-suite bathroom. Outside, a series of decks and terraces sit next to a large swimming pool with swim-up bar and provide a variety of open and covered spaces. An additional guest house provides a further two bedrooms and living areas.

The villa was conceived as a contemporary take on vernacular Caribbean architecture with a simple horizontal white painted timber clad form enveloped and sheltered by a solid white-rendered masonry frame. This framework has the dual function of shading both the interior and exterior spaces and providing extensive balcony areas. Voids in the frame delineate the balcony spaces and allow trees and planting to grow through, spanning floors and integrating the landscaping scheme with the architecture on both levels.

Solar panels on the roof provide hot water for the house and power the pumps for the swimming pool.

Mountain Fold have provided a full architectural service up to the building permit application. Construction was completed in 2020.

At Coast Architects Matt was senior project architect for this five-bedroom villa in the south-west of Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Named after a beautiful garden located at the western end of the world from Greek mythology and the nymphs of sunset who tended it, Hesperides House is designed to take full advantage of the ocean views that come with its location.

It is comprised of three separate buildings which together form a variety of connected internal and external spaces both communal and intimate. A framed formal entrance leads into a large open plan living and dining space which in turn extends through into the covered outdoor living area and swimming pool deck beyond. The buildings are laid out to shelter the central exterior area on the ocean side from the steady prevailing winds and the sun, and to create an enclosed courtyard garden to the rear. Architecturally it is partly embedded within and partly proud of the ironshore rock on which it sits, integrating with the site further with a progression of retained planting and new formal planters. This same planting is paired with extensive pergola elements to reduce the solar energy hitting the building and windows. Warm, natural materials are used throughout, matching a light grey limestone with light oak and cedar and a local stone-clad wall framing the entrance.

The villa utilises the large amount of sunshine that hits the Turks and Caicos Islands by using solar panels to provide hot water to the house and heat the swimming pool. Rainwater is harvested to a cistern beneath one of the rear bedroom.

In addition to designing the villa and monitoring its construction on site, Matt led the interior design, working with Design Studio to inhabit the house with a relaxed contemporary style.

Design copyright Coast Architects
Photography by Provo Pictures