Experimental

On a sloping plot facing the castle, the house rests upon a plinth — a solid base that defines its contact with the ground and organises access. Above it unfolds the piano nobile: the main living floor, elevated and open to the landscape. Beneath, a service level houses technical and support functions, creating a balance between weight and lightness, between matter and dwelling.

The house is structured through solids and voids, pierced by patios that enable flexibility of use over time. It is a Guernica house — fragmented, tense, yet always capable of reassembling itself. It is also a Transformer house: designed to adapt to its inhabitants’ lives — to contract as the family shrinks, to lose half of itself without losing its identity.

At the centre, the hearth. A tall chimney pierces through the roof, marking the fixed point of the house — a symbolic and functional anchor. It is also the visible signal to those arriving from above: the vertical gesture that breaks the horizontal geometry and announces the presence of home.