Hill HouseA house that belongs to the hill

On the south side of Providenciales, where the prevailing winds are strong and the seas are rough, this hilly site rises 70 feet above the ocean at a slope of 25 degrees. Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s proclamation that ‘No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other.’ - we devised a strategy for a home of three parts on three levels. 

A guest house is placed at the top level; the living/kitchen/dining and pool with associated terraces at the middle; and the primary bedrooms at the lowest level. The volumes stagger so as to ensure views from the rooms above, turning the journey from hilltop to sea into a slow meander. Their mono-pitch roofs follow the angle of the hill, harnessing breezes to provide natural stack ventilation cooling.

The steely grey metal of the roofs and the native stone walls complement the muted sandy-grey tones of the site. Over time, the house will appear like a rock escarpment nestled within the hillside, surrounded and protected by windpruned native planting - the perfect place for refuge on the wilder side of the island.