Xiro Horio sits in the dry hill landscape above Plakias, on the south coast of Crete — the "dry village" its name describes. The site is open and exposed: long views to the Libyan Sea, hard sun, and the steady coastal wind. Conceived as a hospitality project, the architecture is planned to shelter and shade, settling low into the slope rather than rising against it. Now in permitting, it is shaped around the studio's constant aim — a calm, grounded building, inevitable in its place.