Situated between an old farm road and a working hillside vineyard, this long house is attached to a stone wall inspired by the local agricultural landscape. It houses three generations of a family, with spaces to come together and functional secluded areas.
Stones gathered from farms nearby start as a landscape feature and ultimately comprise the north wall of the building, sheltering it from the road and integrating it into the hillside. The length enacts the sequence through the house, punctuated by compositional events of window, entry and courtyard.
On the south, a simple geometric move, a twist in plan, orients transverse shear walls toward the lake below, making each room a unique volume collected under one roof. This subtle inflection of the plan sets up several geometrical abnormalities, arranging the rooms in sawtooth formation to create recesses of space under the large roof overhang to contemplate the view.