tdot.design
Croatia
Seaside
architectural
and
interior
design
studio
AREA
Seaside
LOCATION
Barcelona, Spain
Dates
Completion Autumn '26
WHAT WE DID
Architectural Concept
Landscape Concept
Space
A stretch of Adriatic coastline, where teal water meets a rocky shore framed by cypress and pine. The site offered an unspoken brief of its own: do not interrupt the view. Every move had to negotiate with the sea - letting the water keep the visual weight while the architecture quietly arranged the experience around it.
Brief
A waterfront that traces the natural line of the embankment rather than imposing a new one. The client wanted a place to walk and pause - alone, with friends, or with family - without the standard vocabulary of railings, lamp posts, and benches in a row. The result had to feel like landscape first, architecture second.
Concept
We built the entire site from one geometry: the circle. Around it, streamlined forms and curves follow the existing line of the shore, restating the same gesture at two scales — a planted ring suspended over the sea, and a row of timber cylinders set into the embankment. The deck curves with the coast rather than against it.
The Ring
A timber pier reaches out from the shore and loops back on itself, framing an open circle of water at its center. Visitors walk a full circuit without retracing their steps — a small architectural rarity on a public waterfront. The void is planted around its inner edge, so the eye drops past greenery directly into the Adriatic.
Pavilions
Seven cylindrical timber pods line the embankment, vertically slatted and roofed in pale gravel. Each holds a daybed and lounge seating. From the path they read as a screen of vertical lines drawn against the cypress; from inside, the coastline appears in bands between the slats. Privacy without enclosure.
Material Restraint
Pale ash decking, light stone, dark planters, gravel. Nothing in the palette competes with the water. The vertical slats of the pavilions, the bollard railings of the pier, and the linear deck boards all run in the same direction — giving the site a quiet, repeated cadence that mirrors the horizon.
creative force behind
The strip of shore here is narrow - a walk along it would always have an end. So we drew a circle, and suddenly the coast had no end. Visitors could keep walking by the Adriatic for as long as they liked, returning to where they started without turning back. We wanted that circle to fly above the water, weightless, as if the sea had decided to hold it there itself. Once we drew it, the rest of the project followed. The site is now in approvals, and cafés and restaurants will come in the next phase - but the geometry is already set
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Liubov Tuzovska
Founder & Chief of Design