Villa Buka

Villa Buka is an open-plan villa designed to emphasise the incredible surrounding scenery in beautiful Nyanyi, Bali. Excluding the third bedroom, all rooms within this modern Bali design home overlook the large infinity pool, rice fields and river that runs past the bottom of this property.

Villa Buka's garden climbs to the house in tiers. A lawn with stepping stones and a pair of loungers sits at the bottom behind a timber fence. Above it, an infinity-edge pool lined in green stone runs across the front of the house on a curved concrete base, with a timber deck and a hanging chair at the doors. A stair with a timber handrail climbs past a pergola-covered seating area to one side.

The house is two storeys under a hipped roof with deep timber eaves. Upstairs, the bedrooms have timber Juliet balconies and timber shutters; downstairs is one open room behind full-height glass. The living area has a long sofa and a root-wood coffee table, the dining table is a timber slab with rattan chairs under a line of woven pendants, and an open stair with timber treads on a black steel stringer rises over a bed of indoor planting.

On the roof, a timber pergola with a glass roof covers an outdoor kitchen with a sink and a long counter, and opens onto a timber sun deck with loungers and an umbrella. The bedrooms have recessed timber ceilings and grey plastered walls, and the bathrooms set freestanding baths on timber floors beside windows to the garden. Balitecture designed Villa Buka, a three-bedroom Modern Balinese villa in Bali.

• Infinity-edge pool in green stone on a curved base
• Roof deck with a glass-roofed outdoor kitchen
• Open stair with timber treads over indoor planting
• Timber Juliet balconies and shutters on the bedrooms
• Freestanding baths on timber floors by garden windows