线性住宅丨希腊丨Mastrominas Architecture

Linear House occupies an olive-covered slope in Monastiraki, Greece, where Mastrominas Architecture lays out a single-story duplex along an east-west axis. Designed in 2023, the house takes its strongest cue from the site: a long, simple shell that keeps every major space oriented toward the Corinthian Gulf while allowing two households to share outdoor life without losing clear zones of privacy.

About Linear House

Linear House sits on a sloped site planted with olive groves and forest in the Nafpaktia region, with unobstructed views to the Corinthian Gulf. Mastrominas Architecture answers that setting with a single-story duplex drawn as a simple shell along the east-west axis, keeping the building low and direct against the terrain.

The project treats flexibility as a central requirement. Two residences share one long structure, yet the plan allows them to adjust over time to the changing needs of a growing family.

Access arrives from the north, where each unit is marked by a distinct entrance. Two roof structures cut vertically through the building and return on the southern facade, giving the duplex its clearest formal accent while also helping define the threshold to each home. Below, an underground level contains auxiliary spaces and an autonomous guesthouse. The ground floor holds the main rooms of both residences.

The shared living areas line up along a party wall and open directly to a unified terrace and pool. That arrangement places collective use at the center of the project, not as a leftover exterior zone but as the main social space binding the duplex together. The terrace becomes the project’s hinge, linking the two households to one another and to the landscape beyond.

The facades sharpen the contrast between north and south. On the northern elevation, continuous glazing is broken by wooden panel surfaces, some fixed and some operable. Their movement changes the reading of the house over the course of the day and through the seasons. On the southern side, the glass remains continuous, reducing the boundary between interior rooms and the outdoor terrace.

That sense of continuity extends to the floor finish, which uses large ceramic tiles in earthy tones both inside and out. The material choice avoids a hard visual break at the glass line and reinforces the long horizontal pull of the house. Inside, the palette stays restrained, with large white and gray surfaces on walls and fixed furniture, white and light gray upholstery, and touches of natural wood in a raw finish.

At the far edge of the terrace, the outdoor sequence culminates in an infinity pool with a sunken seating area. The two roof structures also mark the private territory of each residence here. In one unit, a shallow water surface interrupts the terrace and drops vertically into the building. In the other, the garden passes under the roof and enters the house as a courtyard. Those two moves give each side of the duplex a distinct spatial identity while keeping the overall composition legible as one long house.