LÍTICAWater & Landscape Atelier
Hand-drawn plan of a hillside plot with a house, pool, stone walls and terraces descending to the sea.

Water & Landscape Atelier

Water finds
its place.

We design pools and landscapes as one architecture.

Scroll down: from plan to horizon

01 · From plan to stone

From drawing
to place.

Walls that follow the terrain, shade that shelters rest, a path descending to water. Every line on the plan becomes stone, olive and water.

02 · Read before drawing

The pool's shape
begins beyond the water.

In the level of a house. In a tree's shadow. In the direction of the wind.

03 · Casa Ladera

Still water.
Land that flows on.

From the terrace, the water merges with the horizon. The edge becomes a place to be.

04 · Light

One landscape.
Many hours.

The sun draws the shadows. Night reveals the path: the water glows from within.

05 · Your plot

Water, land.
One shared place.

Now change the climate, orientation and time. The same place responds.

Your plot · the same place, your decisions

One decision about water
changes everything around it.

Study plot · water + landscape

The terrace connects house and water. A planted strip filters the wind and shelters rest; the permeable path follows the terrain's contours.

A limestone terrace beside a sea-facing infinity pool with an olive tree in the late afternoon.
How it could lookMediterranean · 17:30
WaterPlanting layerMineral groundPathLandscape in balance

Reading the siteA shared horizon.Water runs alongside the terrace. Plant shade shelters the seating area, while the path preserves the ground's continuity.

First, verifyHouse levels, drainage and existing ground conditions before setting the water level.

Qualitative spatial representation, not to scale. This is not a technical design or quotation.

Atlas · three spatial studies

Three places.
Three ways to reach the water.

  1. Infinity pool aligned with the sea, beside a stone house with a pergola and olive tree.

    Mediterranean · terrace · south

    Casa Ladera

    Still water at house level. Terraces descend toward the sea without interrupting the land.

  2. Earth-walled courtyard with a long water channel and olive trees on a dry hillside.

    Hot and dry · courtyard · west

    Patio de Sombra

    Water gathers close to shelter. Thick walls and a screen protect against the afternoon sun.

  3. Lit timber walkway through dunes and coastal vegetation beside a pool at dusk.

    Warm coast · garden · east

    Jardín de Duna

    A timber path between dune and water. Shelter planting responds to the wind.

Material

What time
transforms.

We choose materials that age with the place: stone polished by water, wood silvered by the sun.

Travertine edge with water flowing over it.
TravertinePolished by water.
Dry-stone wall with lichen and thyme in its joints.
Dry stoneThe walls follow the contours.
Green water with reflections of light and a floating olive leaf.
WaterA surface that holds the sky.
Weathered olive-wood bench with a linen cushion and leaf shadows.
OliveWood silvered by the sun.