The project offers structure using a courtyard emanating both from the numerous traditional sheepfolds of the surroundings — composed of simple rectangular volume adjoined to a small courtyard — and the platitude of the site exposing the house to strong winds. While protecting from the winds, the courtyard also extends the relatively reduced interior living space to a much more generous and less expensive outdoor area. In between and through the volumes, openings toward the landscape articulate the relation of the courtyard to its surroundings. The stones used to build the walls were extracted from the ground while digging the foundations and the underground cistern that collects rainwater. Its local materiality allows it to blend into the landscape. Then associated with the necessary concrete elements, they together develop a simple mineral architectural language, reinforcing the horizontality of the building and the unity of the courtyard.
