A six-room villa cantilevered over the Mediterranean. Local stone, recycled olive wood, passive cooling — built to be habitable for the next 200 years without an HVAC retrofit.
A private library for a couple of book collectors. Eight rooms, twelve courtyards, fourteen kinds of paper-translucent light. The roof shifts on cables for monsoon season.
Conversion of a 1957 east-Berlin power plant into a 12-pool bath house. The original cooling tower stays as the central skylight. All interiors are board-marked concrete and slow.
Vello is a small architecture studio with offices in Athens and Tokyo. We work on private houses, restoration projects, and bath houses — usually for the same client for decades.
We've published four monographs and won the AR House award in 2025. Press kit on request. New commissions opening in spring 2027.