Pezelos

Sithonia, Halkidiki

Type

Hospitality and wellness resort

Status

Concept design, 2026

Role

Concept, plan, section and model

The terraces from above, every roof a garden

The idea

Pezelos takes its name from the pezoules, the dry stone terraces that have held these slopes for a thousand years. Here the terrace is inhabited. The rooms live inside the walls, and every roof is the garden of the room above. Walls hold the earth, screens hold the light, gardens hold the sky. Nobody is seen, and everybody sees the sea.

The stair cut through the walls down to the water

A room with its screen folded open to the sea

The spa carved into the last wall, at dusk

The water

At the water the hill opens into a spa carved into the last wall, its pool spilling over the edge into the Aegean. From the sea there is no building, only a green headland with lines of stone, and at dusk, lines of light.

The restaurant kitchen open to the terrace

Drawings

How it was thought through

Sketch, a seamless part of the landscape — The first pages. A seamless part of the landscape, carved out of the natural topography.

Sketch, every roof is the garden of the room above — The headland, the terraces, the spa at the water. Every roof is the garden of the room above.

The headland from above. Lines of stone in a green slope, nothing else.

Masterplan of the headland — The masterplan. Rooms in the walls, the spa in the last one, the jetty at the water.

Typology one, model — Typology one. Rooms stepping with the terrace.

Typology one, section — Typology one, cut open.

Typology two, model — Typology two. A garden on every roof.

Typology two, section — Typology two, cut open.

Scope

Concept, plan, section and model by Pierre Zebouni. Images AI-assisted from his own model and sketches. Sithonia, Halkidiki, Greece.