The house sits within an exposed volcanic landscape where wind, salt air and shifting Atlantic light strongly influence daily life. In response, the architecture is organised as a compact composition of stone rooms and sheltered courts, using mass and enclosure to create calm interior climates without disconnecting from the site’s wider horizon.
Public and private spaces are threaded around planted voids that bring light deep into the plan while offering moments of pause and privacy. Living areas open toward long ocean views, whereas bedrooms and service spaces are more introspective, buffered by thick masonry walls and carefully positioned openings. Built-in furnishings, lime plaster and timber joinery give the interiors a tactile restraint that matches the exterior’s mineral character.
The project’s ambition is modest but precise: to produce a house that feels inseparable from its ground. Rather than dominate the landscape, it reads as if it has been cut from it — heavy, weathering slowly and attuned to the rhythms of wind, shade and sea.