A 2,500-square-foot residential structure, located near the small village of Trasierra halfway between the Basque country and Galicia—on Spain’s Northern Atlantic coast. Emerging from a windswept former cornfield overlooking the Gulf of Biscay, Casa Lasso intertwines the built structure with the landscape. This occupation forms a figure eight along the site’s longest diagonal and aligns itself with the movement of (direction of) the prevailing winds.The structure is composed about a series of hinges or vertical axes occurring at the moment of crossing of the figure eight. This technique defies and rejects standard projective geometry, which focuses on elevations and facades, in favor of an alternative projective composition that develops about the axis and the spaces in-between. This method proposes a new typological approach to domestic models rather than central or lineal typologies: Casa Lasso defines a new model for cohabitation through the open quadrants of the nexus.
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