Set in Vittoria Apuana, the quiet, pine-shaded northern district of Forte dei Marmi, this villa sits only a short walk from the shoreline, with the Apuan Alps rising as a silver backdrop to the east. Within the protected coastal kilometer, where new construction is strictly regulated and the market is made up almost entirely of restorations of existing villas — a full demolition-and-reconstruction at this scale is exceptionally rare. With c. 2,390 sqm of land, single ownership and a contemporary architecture conceived from scratch, is the unusual chance to begin a residence in this place, rather than to inherit one.

At the heart of the design is a single, generous open-plan volume in which living room and kitchen flow into one another, while the master bedroom sits in quiet connection alongside. All the internal spaces open onto the pool terrace through full-height walls of glass: sliding panels in slim anthracite-grey aluminum retract entirely, so that the swimming pool, teak decking and planting read almost as another room of the house. By day the house effectively brings the garden inside; by night, with the glass closed and the parapet of the green roof above, it returns to the disciplined, cubic volume the architecture sets out to be.

Behind the quiet exterior, the villa is engineered to the next generation of Italian residential standards. The structure is fully anti-seismic; photovoltaic and solar-thermal panels on the roof are concealed behind a low parapet, while the sleeping wing is finished as a green roof for thermal and acoustic performance. Latest-generation building services and full adaptability per D.M. 236/1989 round out a residence designed to be lived in for decades.