One-story house designed to introduce the landscape inside the rooms. The superimposition of different layers of materials acts as a skin envelope that helps the landscape to infiltrate the interior. For its inhabitants, waking up in this house every day is like waking up in the garden of delights.
One of the nicest things we have been told about the house is that it seems like it has always been there. I think it is something beautiful, because somehow it has become part of the place, of the landscape.
The project was born from the desire of its owners to be in full contact with nature. Accustomed to living in an apartment, with views as wonderful as unattainable, they decided to stop contemplating the landscape as if it were a painting to immerse themselves in it with all their senses. Under this premise we worked on the design of a house in which the limits between the exterior and the interior are blurred and create a space without borders between the different rooms of the house.
The longitudinal nature of the plot marked the fold shape of the house. We wanted to avoid raising more than one height for two reasons: not to be invasive with the landscape of the area and to encourage transitions between the interior life and the activity of the garden. Thus, the floor plan of the house ends up occupying most of the plot: inside and outside are one. The rigidity of this concrete fold is attenuated by wrapping it in other materials that give it softness and warmth. The glazed patios create small bubbles of light that connect the rooms, bringing nature into the home.
Inspired by the pine forest near the plot, we designed a ceramic lattice that emulates the flashes of natural light filtered by the pine needles. This lattice provides privacy to the bedrooms and gives them a pixelized light similar to the one that sneaks through the slits of a half-open shutter. It also acts as a second skin that embraces and comforts. The irregular arrangement of the pieces is reminiscent of those running stitches that used to appear on the sweaters knitted by mothers and grandmothers and that are so closely linked to the feeling of home.
