House of Quiet Stone

The brief

A private residence sited along a coastal ridge. The brief asked for a house that would weather, not date — calm under the long horizontal light, and quiet enough to disappear into the landscape from a distance.

Design narrative

The project is organized as three stone volumes drawn along a single line, with a glazed living-room slot centered between them. The flanking volumes are solid limestone, hand-cut to a single dimension so they read as a continuous mass; the center is opened to the long horizon, framing the landscape from inside. Glazing is set deep into the stone walls, which serve as both structure and shade — interior temperatures hold steady through the long Mediterranean summer without active cooling. A dry-stone retaining wall holds back the meadow at the foot of the building. The result is a house that is read first as a piece of the site, and only second as architecture.