The act of splitting and dividing in architecture can produce dramatic effects.
It can induce strong connections, create new focuses and perspectives, and reveal new spaces with new experiences. The DL house introduces a game of full and empty, heavy and light, smooth and rough, resulting in an intense connection between the construction and the landscape.
Located in an agricultural and narrow land, surrounded with working machinery, the house needs to close into itself.
uilt from a single cut out mass, creating small patios as well as transitional areas, it has always a guideline. Such mass acts as a transition, an open space into the surroundings keeping, even so, its aura of intimacy.
Stone clads the base of the building to protect it physically from the agrarian environment and as a way of highlighting it. An assortment of materials such as stone, wood, concrete, ceramics and glass combines to create a rich collage of textures and patterns.