Underlying the conceptual underpinnings of the project, the largest of the three buildings, which accommodates the public functions of the residence, takes the archetypal form of a house: think rectangular plan, gable roof. Yet at the same time, this quintessential form is undermined by the extensive use of one-way mirrors that reflect the forest around it making the structure practically invisible. It’s only during the night when the lights are turned on indoors that the building fully materializes.

Inside, the sensation is as peculiar as the open-plan space feels both sheltered and exposed. Minimally furnished with a corner sofa, a dining table in the form of a tree trunk slab and a kitchen island, the room has all the hallmarks of domesticity and yet the immediacy of nature, both visibly through the building’s transparency and tactually though the use of natural materials like wood and clay bricks, upends it in favour of more extroverted and adventurous sensibility that perfectly suits this vacation retreat.

The chevron-shaped clay bricks, which in this space are used to create a ceramic lattice screen that filters in the daylight, are an element that can be found throughout the project in different configurations and serving functions, from structural walls and solid floors to permeable paving for exterior terraces and pathways. It is its ubiquity that ties all the different structures together in the most naturalistic way without having to conform to an aesthetic or structural uniformity.