Casa Uluwatu

Casa Uluwatu is a small development of three-bedroom villas in Pecatu, on the southern tip of the Bukit, each with a private pool and an ocean-view rooftop. This is the part of Bali people come to for the clifftops, the surf at Padang Padang, and beach clubs like Savaya and Single Fin. The villas were designed to make the most of all of it.

The defining move was the rooftop. A spiral stair climbs from the courtyard to a top floor set up for actual use - an outdoor lounge, a dining area, and an ocean outlook across the peninsula. In a market where the view is half the booking, that extra level does a lot of work. Every villa got one, and it is the space guests photograph and the reason they rebook.

Down at ground level, the layout is open-plan and built around a private pool, with timber, stone, and natural finishes carried throughout. Modern, but warm enough to feel like a holiday rather than a showroom. Every decision was made for how the villa actually feels to live in, not just how it looked in a render.

Most villas in this price bracket stop at two levels. Casa Uluwatu added a third - a rooftop - because in Uluwatu, height buys you the ocean. Getting there without the build feeling top-heavy was the design problem, and the answer was a light steel spiral stair that reads as a feature rather than an obstacle.

The material palette is deliberately tactile. Palimanan stone on the feature walls, teak panels on the ceilings, polished cement underfoot, Sukabumi tiles in the pool. These are materials that age well in Bali's climate and photograph beautifully under the kind of light the Bukit gets in the late afternoon.

Each villa came fully finished - furniture, sanitary, and kitchen appliances included - so owners could move it straight into rental or their own use without a fit-out phase. Tenure was leasehold, 30 years plus a 30-year extension.

Casa Uluwatu was drawn in Balitecture's Kerobokan studio. The architects who designed it ran the build on site, with our own project management and quality control on the ground every week.

After handover, our property team was on hand for the lot: bookings, guests, maintenance, and monthly owner reporting. Owners stayed as hands-off as they wanted.

• Light steel spiral stair up to a usable rooftop
• Rooftop lounge and dining with an ocean outlook
• Three levels of modern tropical architecture
• Open-plan living built around a private pool
• Palimanan stone feature walls and teak-panelled ceilings
• Polished cement floors and Sukabumi tiles in the pool
• Handed over fully finished, with furniture and kitchen appliances