Overview
The main objectives of the house are two. Firstly, that it integrates the forest in the daily experience of the user, and secondly, that it receives as much light and sun as possible during the entire day. For those purposes, the design was fit to a 2Y letters diagram that creates not only double orientations for the sun to enter at different times of the day, but also exposes the inhabitant to the views that surround him. In other words, the extremely extended perimeter of the house and it bifurcations, in opposition to a compact organisation, gives the experience of being, not in front of the exterior, but within it. More specifically, the experience is of being among the sun and the trees in a parietal relationship. Additionally, this shape also made possible to fit into the existing trees without having to clean the site.
Structure
Regarding the materialisation of the project, timber was chosen because it is a local material that could anchor the house to the place by affiliations with the natural and the cultural. With regard to the relation with the ground, the 2Y diagram negotiates the slope in different manners. Sometimes it underlines and rests upon the ground and at other times it contrasts with the soil, stressing the artificiality of the architectonic body.
Exterior
With respect to the exterior treatment of the skin, the objective was to create a constant vibration with the mostly green exterior that, as it is well known, can be achieved using a red colour.
Interior
The wooden structures, in opposition with other kind of material ensembles, are naturally built using infinite linear elements that, as a result, resemble the sense of infinity that is present in forests and could enter in a sort of vibration with the exterior. In this respect, the structural and the architectural plans were done simultaneously and in a permanent conversation. At the end it is hard to distinguish one from the other.
