Our aim with this prototype is to test a high-quality minimum house  concept, based on passive architecture principles and efficient construction systems, connecting with its immediate surroundings while remaining economically viable. This small-format second residence is envisioned as a possible sustainable-tourist rental facility, promoting conscious tourism -one that seeks to discover, enjoy and engage with the local environment.

The countryside offers us a stage where we can reconnect with what is essencial.
The need for silence, for pauses. To escape, even if only briefly, from the abstraction into which routine reduces the passing of days.
The urgency to regain contact with the earth, to grasp the sun’s journey throughout the day, the passage of seasons over the landscape.

Small architecture, at a landscape scale, has long been tied to the existence of traditional constructions, to the heritage of vernacular architecture which, because of its simplicity and austerity, has survived to this day in a precarious state.
The integration of rural architecture into landscape is often limited to perpetuating tradition’s characteristics, architecture from the past. Cultural heritage must be preserved and safeguarded when it exists. But what happens when it does not?
What if we reclaim concepts from tradition such as energy sustainability and circular economy? What if we bring back the reversibility once offered by dry stone or rammed earth walls?
And why not do it by building minimal, reversible, efficient and sustainable architectures?

Sustainability and efficiency set the guidelines for new ways of designing and building, introducing concepts that are becoming unavoidable. Reducing energy consumption by optimizing performance, breaking away from dependence on non-renewable energy sources, and minimizing their environmental impact lead us to adopt design strategies directly from vernacular architecture and a deep understanding of the characteristics of the place where it is built.