A hillside above Tampah where every villa is a different architect’s answer to the same view — and the homes you can actually book.
The hillside sits above Tampah, on the south coast of Lombok, a short drive from Selong Belanak and the Kuta Mandalika coast: a low-density estate of architect-designed villas with five-star service and a sports club — championship padel, tennis, beach volleyball — where every home is framed to the ocean and the sunset.
The premise is unusual. Rather than impose one house style, the estate hands a roster of leading studios the same difficult brief — a steep, view-rich tropical site — then lets each answer in its own language. The result is a hillside where no two villas repeat, and where each house is the work of a different architect.
The registers vary as much as the plans. Some houses are tropical modernism met with a disciplined, almost severe geometry, loosened by Lombok light. Some favour rooms that are intimate yet open, shaped by shifting natural light and the weight of raw materials. Others pair rigorous, functional planning with a naturalist material palette, or carry a long Indonesian tradition of interiors into a contemporary, technically modern villa.
What ties the collection together is the land. Every plot falls toward the water, so each studio works the slope instead of flattening it — split levels, stepped pools, rooflines edited to keep the horizon. You are not choosing a room category here; you are choosing a building.
The collection we hold runs the full range: a seven-bedroom estate, two five-bedroom family villas, nine four-bedroom houses, four three-bedroom retreats, and a pair of two-bedroom villas.
If you want the architecture itself to be the reason for the trip, one four-bedroom is the one to know — a house built around its “grand reveal,” where the descent through the rooms withholds the view until, suddenly, it doesn’t. Two of the three-bedroom villas read calmer: minimalist volumes, organic materials, lush planting and a sea-and-sunset orientation from a peak position — the estate’s quieter register.
Staff, chef and the sports club are shared estate services, so a stay scales cleanly from a two-bedroom retreat to the seven-bedroom estate without losing the five-star layer. The architecture changes; the service does not.
The brief is the same hillside. The answer never repeats.
Tell our concierge the shape of stay you want — a house built around its reveal, a three-bedroom on the ridge, the seven-bedroom estate — and we will match the villa and hold the dates.
Good to know
Who designed these Lombok villas?
Each villa on the hillside is the work of a different leading architect, given the same steep, sea-facing site and asked to answer it in its own way — so no two houses repeat.
Where is the hillside?
Above Tampah on the south coast of Lombok, near Selong Belanak, a short drive from the beach and the Kuta Mandalika area, with ocean and sunset views from every villa.
How many of these villas can you book?
We hold 18 villas on the hillside, from two-bedroom retreats to a seven-bedroom estate, all with private pools and full estate service.
Is it good for families or groups?
Yes — options run from 2-bedroom villas to a 7-bedroom estate, sharing a sports club (padel, tennis, beach volleyball), an estate chef and five-star service.