Experimental

Set on a sloping site near the Ortiga Sanctuary, this house presents itself as a garden that opens selectively to the landscape. To the north, facing the sanctuary, little is revealed — only a continuous garden that appears to extend the natural terrain, concealing the built presence. The architecture retreats, quietens itself. The true presence of the house is revealed to the south, where the topography gives way and the volume emerges, cutting through the land with measured gestures.

Access is via a discreet porch, embedded within the green roof, leading directly into the interior. The spatial organisation unfolds across two levels, interlinked by a system of half-floors and mezzanines, allowing for a fluid articulation of programmes and a constant visual relationship between levels. The structure functions as a continuous device — part excavation, part roof — a tent anchored to the ground, open to the horizon.

At the heart of the house, a swimming pool slices through the built mass, piercing the interior and projecting westward into the landscape. This sheet of water acts as an axis of transparency, coolness, and spatial extension, marking the sun’s path and drawing the gaze outward.

The house is, at once, a shelter and a lookout; both construction and terrain. A piece that hides within the topography and reveals itself through use — designed to exist in tension between containment and openness, between the invisible and the exposed.