This house, designed by the architect himself, is located in the vicinity of the village of Sant Antoni de Vilamajor, near the southern slopes of the Montseny massif, in a place where there is an abundance of cultivated plots and agricultural constructions. The house stands as a critique of the typology of conventional chalets and their habitual lack of adaptation to the surroundings.
Taking the local landscape as a reference, the house is conceived as a henhouse open to the exterior, whose characteristics are: elementariness in the construction, integration into the staircase of the surroundings, and a concreteness given by the objectivity of the needs. The construction is carried out in parts over a long period of time, responding to the requirements that have arisen. There is a constant, however, in the consideration of climate and landscape from a mimetic attitude towards the place where it is located. This attitude can be seen in the definition of the limits of the plot and the implantation of the house: the plot has no fence, there is an access road that is surrounded only by perimeter vegetation and cultivation, imitating the agricultural constructions. In this case, a careful study of the gradation of the passage from public to private is required. This vegetation that generates perimeters has well-defined functions: defining privacy, climate control and adding to the growth factor.
