Location
Vineyard slope
Year
2023
Client
Clara and Tomás Ibarra
Scope
Architecture, interiors, landscape
Duration
24 months
Site
South-facing vineyard slope, 18° gradient
Three terraces that follow the vines, so the house steps down the hill instead of standing on it.
Three long terraces that follow the vines down the hill. A house that lives outdoors for most of the year.
Each level of the house corresponds to a terrace of the vineyard. Rooms open fully onto planted roofs and pergolas, and dry-stone walls, rebuilt from stones found on the site, hold the slope as they have for centuries.
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White terraces stepping down the slope
01
A band of windows on the upper terrace
02
The living room above the vines
03
From brief to building.
The question we were asked, how we answered it, and what changed once people moved in.
01
The challenge
A steep working vineyard, a family who wanted to keep producing wine, and planning rules that limited any new building to the footprint of an old farm store.
02
Our approach
We split the house into three levels that align with the existing terraces. Each roof becomes the garden of the level above, and the vines continue right up to the windows.
03
The outcome
The vineyard kept every productive row, the house is hardly visible from the valley road, and the family now hosts the harvest lunch on its own terraces.
Terraces, one house
Slope followed, not levelled
Vine rows lost
Stepping with the hill.
Each level sits on a terrace of the vineyard, and every roof becomes a garden for the floor above.
The lower terrace and pool
From the hill itself.
Materials found on the slope, or made within a few kilometres of it.
“We spend more time outside than in. The house simply makes that easy.”
Clara and Tomás Ibarra, clients
Architecture
ARCHEA
Interior design
Ines Albrecht
Structure
Mare Structural
Landscape
Atelier Verde
Builder
Ibarra Construcción
Photography
Studio Lumen
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