Our vision

We build less,so you canlive more.

VÉRDA is a residential developer with an unusual brief: fewer homes, lower buildings, and most of the land left exactly as we found it.

Aerial view of low limestone villas with green roofs terraced into a wooded valley

Alto Sereno, seen from above. Illustrative.

Paths winding between planted roofs, seen from above

How we think

A home is not only the rooms you own. It is the walk to your door, the tree outside the window, and the people you nod to on the way.

So we design from the outside in. We spend a year reading a site before we draw on it: where the morning light lands, where water gathers after rain, which trees were there before any of us.

Only then do we place a building. The architecture that follows is calm, low and made of very few things, because the landscape is already doing most of the work.

“The most valuable thing we can add to a piece of land is restraint.”

From the VÉRDA design brief

What we hold to

Four commitments,kept on every site.

01
Land first
We read a site for a full year before we draw on it. Light, water and wind decide more than we do.
02
Fewer, better
We would rather build sixty-four homes well than two hundred adequately.
03
Wellbeing by design
Calm is planned: in the quiet of a wall, the length of a walk, the distance to your neighbour.
04
Made to last
Materials are chosen for how they look in thirty years, and details for how they can be repaired.

Alto Sereno in numbers

Our first place,by the figures.

Alto Sereno is where these ideas are being built. The figures below are illustrative sample data.

See the masterplan

ResidencesAcross four types: 64
LandscapeForest, meadow and water: 38ha
Left unbuiltOf the total site: 82%
First homesPhase one, estimated: 2028

All figures are illustrative.

The journey so far

Slowly,and in order.

01Complete
2023
Vision
Land assembled, ecological survey completed and the brief written: fewer homes, more landscape.
02Complete
2024–2025
Planning
Masterplan designed with the landscape architects and approved. Show villa detailed.
03In progress
2026–2028
Construction
Infrastructure and planting first. The Ridge and The Pavilion are under construction now.
04Upcoming
2028–2029
Completion
Phase one homes handed over from 2028; The Terraces follow in 2029. Dates are estimates.