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Naxxar House
Naxxar House
Naxxar, Malta
Popular Winner, 2025 A+Awards, Details - Architecture +Stone
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Naxxar House
Naxxar, Malta
Popular Winner, 2025 A+Awards, Details - Architecture +Stone
Project of the Day on Aug 17, 2025
Project Featured on Aug 17, 2025
Firm
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2023
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
BUDGET
Undisclosed
Situated in the village of Naxxar on the Mediterranean island of Malta, this project extends and transforms an 18th-century palazzino into a contemporary residence. The intervention is based on a respectful dialogue between a new addition and the existing architecture and grows out of both the building’s character and the architecture of adjacent historic defensive towers, once dotting the surrounding landscape before being absorbed by recent urban development in the area.
In fact, the purpose of this new screen is to provide privacy from the new apartment block across the road. A series of tall, folded walls replicating the rhythm of solid and void on the ground floor, was constructed in stone, adding a romantic twist to the existing one storey wing. In the same way that a castle’s battlements served to shield the defenders from enemy arrows, the new wall, conceived as a scenographic element reminiscent of scenes from Hamlet and Tosca, provides protection to the new owners from the direct gaze of their neighbours.
The wall is built by craftsmen utilizing locally sourced Maltese softstone and traditional construction techniques, but the application is contemporary. The screen is crafted to create specific shadows by changing the angles and spacing of the fins to allow light and shadow to interact playfully with the façade and to guarantee the balance of privacy, light and the historic character of the site.
The project includes reconfiguring the rooms of the house and improving their connection to the gardens, historic stone walls and Mediterranean fruit trees. The loggia, originally a farm structure used to shelter animals, is transformed into the central living area, connected with the outdoor dining space and pool. Several reclaimed materials, including stone floor slabs are reintegrated throughout the structure, reinforcing the continuity between the renewed building and the region’s vernacular architecture.
In fact, the purpose of this new screen is to provide privacy from the new apartment block across the road. A series of tall, folded walls replicating the rhythm of solid and void on the ground floor, was constructed in stone, adding a romantic twist to the existing one storey wing. In the same way that a castle’s battlements served to shield the defenders from enemy arrows, the new wall, conceived as a scenographic element reminiscent of scenes from Hamlet and Tosca, provides protection to the new owners from the direct gaze of their neighbours.
The wall is built by craftsmen utilizing locally sourced Maltese softstone and traditional construction techniques, but the application is contemporary. The screen is crafted to create specific shadows by changing the angles and spacing of the fins to allow light and shadow to interact playfully with the façade and to guarantee the balance of privacy, light and the historic character of the site.
The project includes reconfiguring the rooms of the house and improving their connection to the gardens, historic stone walls and Mediterranean fruit trees. The loggia, originally a farm structure used to shelter animals, is transformed into the central living area, connected with the outdoor dining space and pool. Several reclaimed materials, including stone floor slabs are reintegrated throughout the structure, reinforcing the continuity between the renewed building and the region’s vernacular architecture.
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