Italian studio JM Architecture designed a three-bedroom villa as part of a larger planned development in Jesolo, a town that stretches 9.3 miles with a width of 0.3 miles along the Adriatic coast, close to Venice in Northern Italy. Their clients, a young couple with newly born twins, were clear about two things in their brief: They wanted a very low-maintenance house, including the outdoor areas; and they wanted to eliminate the use of wood as far as possible – bar the prefabricated wood construction of the house.

"Wood was eliminated from the start as the clients felt it created maintenance and humidity issues," said architect Jacopo Mascheroni. "This limitation became a great advantage in the end as we chose to use Mosa's tile collection."

The pale-coloured ceramic tiles allow light to reflect around the property, and were used to soften its white facade to avoid it becoming "clinical".

"On one side the whiteness helped to create that feeling of openness but on the other side we understood that it could also feel sterile," said Mascheroni.

"The solution was to find another material that played with the whiteness," he added. "We didn't want to reject the whiteness, we wanted to use other materials to enhance its qualities and vice versa – that's why we introduced Mosa ceramics into the design."

A glazed wall on one side of the of the house allows access to a swimming pool and garden area. A second rectangular block runs parallel to the courtyard and houses the bedrooms and bathrooms.