The Pasture House / Diez + Muller Arquitectos
Briefly

The article discusses the relationship between architecture and landscape, emphasizing the importance of integrating built structures into their natural surroundings. It describes how the design process involves creating spaces that align harmoniously with the topography, ensuring that homes emerge from the land rather than impose upon it. The experience of approaching the house is explored, noting how movement through space reveals different perspectives of the landscape. The article highlights the significance of creating intimate human-scaled areas and the emotional experiences induced by light and natural elements within the architecture.
In a place of imposing beauty and scale, the fragmented volume finds its ways of integrating into the territory apparently effortlessly, preserving its natural conditions.
The experience is based on the act of moving and observing the vast surrounding landscape from different points, which becomes a dynamic, natural and emotional experience.
Taking a pause, leaving the everyday: Architecture is also about retreating into the interior of the house, creating living spaces that are installed in the landscape.
The house shows in the apparent defects, the hidden quality of the things that accompany life.
Read at ArchDaily
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