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This Spanish vacation home is composed by simple rectangle volumes shifted in plan to create a dynamic aesthetic despite the limited space of the plot. Fluted concrete walls sliced by continuous window openings define this villa as a combination of horizontal stripes alternating solid and glass.
Project name
Shift House
Architecture firm
NOMO STUDIO
Location
Menorca, Spain
Photography
Joan Guillamat
Ensamble Studio: Ca'n Terra is the house of the earth: first just that, earth; after quarry, voided from its Mares stone; then used by the military as ammunition dump during the Spanish Civil War and later abandoned, to be rediscovered decades later and come to be architecture.
Project name
Ca'n Terra
Architecture firm
Ensamble Studio
Location
Menorca, Spain
Photography
Ensamble Studio