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House of the Week 125: Villa Grand Cayman

By Architechnophilia @atechno
House of the Week 125: Villa Grand CaymanHouse of the Week 125: Villa Grand CaymanHouse of the Week 125: Villa Grand CaymanHouse of the Week 125: Villa Grand CaymanHouse of the Week 125: Villa Grand CaymanLocated on an ironshore bluff on the Caribbean coast of Grand Cayman, the house is formed as a response to the nature of the site. The house, designed by architects YAR+D, is set on the highest point on a narrow plot, is oriented to receive the tradewinds via a clerestory of fixed louvres. The material palette of flat white paint and glistening dark plaster grounds the house to its environs and within the evolving idiom of Caribbean modernism.

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