The geometry of the House is based on six volumes arranged around a central courtyard. The size and proportion of each volume responds to its use.
These volumes are all connected through a kind of cloister from where the entrance is located and circulation gravitates around the courtyard. The House offers three ways to look at and relate to the outside: An intimate one into an inner courtyard through the ‘cloister’ space that connects all the rooms.
An horizontal one with framed views to different pieces of garden, establishing a direct relation with the outside but at the same time preserves the intimacy. Finally, an open and wide view of the sky provided by the relation between the structure and the geometry of the roof and the load-bearing walls.
The central courtyard is slightly open on one of the sides to generate a continuity with the garden that allows a natural and energetic permeability between the house and the forest. Cross ventilation provides fresh air to indoor spaces.
The amount of material used is minimized with this type of structure, allowing to cover large lights up to 12m with a 9cm slab of laminated wood due to the geometry of the diagonal of the squares.
The sloping gabled roof collects water like a leaf through the use of green-glazed ceramic tiles, which reflect and blend in with the trees. Some of this water is used to irrigate the garden, designed according to the principle of saving water with plants that require little watering.