Nuevo Mundo

“What I saw was… a wondrous number of parrots of different species, some green, others a splendid lemon yellow, others black and plump; and the song of the other birds up in the trees was so exquisite and melodical that oft we stopped and listened to that tender sound. The trees there were so beautiful and ethereal that we felt we had landed in the Garden of Eden…”

[Source: Letters from a New World, A. Vespucci]

The design of this home centres around a small coloured volume: the mixing and matching of a few, simple geometries, amidst the luxuriant vegetation of an imaginary garden.

The effect is that of a votive temple, an architecture born to celebrate domestic rituals. When a house represents living in its most intimate form, it turns into a home, a physical and mental extension of its inhabitants.