Set on a steeply sloping promontory, the housing project is established in continuity using minimalist and contemporary language.
Its predominantly horizontal body is broken up to better suit the morphology, thus distinguishing the different living areas.

“The only possibility for man to be and to be in the world is to inhabit it.”
Martin Heidegger

In architecture, the design of a single-family dwelling presents major questions and various dynamics. Balance is the watchword. Reconciling different family spheres, from the most intimate to the most common, from the public to the private, privacy filters are established, providing different experiences for different types of people.

Since architecture is “The wise, correct and magnificent play of volumes gathered under the light” and the architect's job is to “make the surfaces that surround these volumes come alive”, as LE Corbusier says, the poetics of the volumes arranged on the ground, enveloping and functional, becomes imperative. Form follows function...

When the architect appears as the spokesperson for a project, he must foresee the inhabitant's way of life through the program. Establishing dynamics, the functional program of this house arises from the dialogue with its surroundings. As the plot has a steep slope and only one street front, the project turns the common sphere towards the back, the living room and kitchen, in order to establish a frank, open and continuous dialog with the terrain.

Identifying the problem...
The concept...

As a result, the private sphere, the bedrooms, will be oriented towards the street. At this point, and having identified the problem, the volumetry that will theorize the project emerges. To guarantee privacy in the most intimate areas, the bedrooms, using a diagonal line, open to the surroundings, provides privacy while guaranteeing visual openness to the horizon.
The body of the house establishes a dialog between levels of land. At a higher level, where the dominance of the human scale is greater, the volume is closed in, without openings. At a lower level, where the perspective and the gaze lose intensity, the volume opens up to the landscape.

On the first floor, at street level, the practical living quarters, garage and storage rooms are dynamically established on the ground.

“Architecture is born from a feature. And when it's beautiful and creates surprise, it can, if handled well, reach the higher level of a work of art.”
Oscar Niemeyer