Its fair faced hollowed-out concrete structure overhangs the natural settings and acts as a raised observation platform blending the boundaries of interior and exterior.

This home away from home is designed by Pezo Von Ellrichshausen Architects as part of the Solo Houses, Signature Houses Collection where the architect is given a carte blanche to express his creativity with only a budgetary limit. This villa is located in the Matarranya region in South Catalonia in Spain, is fully autonomous in terms of water and electricity and is totally open celebrating the surrounding countryside. Its fair faced hollowed-out concrete structure overhangs the natural settings and acts as a raised observation platform blending the boundaries of interior and exterior.

‘…Conceived as an anti-bunker, with a play on references, an improbable meeting between Pascal Haüsermann’s bubble house, Mies Van der Rohe’s Farnsworth house, or certain villas by Claude Parent, the PVZ studio ends up by proposing an incredibly unusual construction which rewrites all the codes of the modern holiday…’

ARCHITECT: Pezo Von Ellrichshausen Architects, Concepcion, Chile. CLIENT: Solo Houses, Signature Houses Collection. LOCATION: Matarranya region, South Catalonia, Spain. DATE: 2011. No part of this web site may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of Morfae and the copyright owner.