A golf clubhouse always combines a social human activity with the fact of being in the middle of a natural environment, a golf course. The project maximizes this combination: social interaction, it is a 'club' and landscape; a certain centrality, recognition is always needed; by being a clubhouse, no matter if it is a small building, the project is the center, the heart, of a big natural area: it needs visibility without being invasive in the landscape.
The project consists of a series of rocks, stones that lay in the middle of the landscape, offering that presence and visibility disguised in a natural context: they are rocks in the landscape and are materialized according to that.
The rocks put together become the clubhouse. The organization of those elements makes the building: four volumes hosting different programs linked by a common plaza, the heart of the building, the bar. The plaza opens completely to the landscape, the niches, spaces in between the volumes are fully glazed: the surrounding landscape is framed and brought inside the building.
The plaza overlooks the surrounding landscape in all directions. The rest of the volumes are mostly opaque due to the program (kitchen, changing rooms), with almost no openings or openings hidden behind the stone lattice texture; according to privacy requirements, the façade opens or closes up. The restaurant-lounge volume is an exception: big openings are carved in to offer an indoor-outdoor lounge adequate to the Mediterranean climate.
The materialization of the building maximizes the rock effect: the local natural stone covers not just the façade, but also the roof, making no distinction between them: the roof is part of the façade and the façade is part of the roof. It is all about stone in the landscape.