Ecuadorian design firm Diez + Muller Arquitectos has designed the El Pastizal house. It is a residence made up of a range of courtyards which are closed off by a board-created concrete living space on top of a hill. The home features four bedrooms and it is meant to be an object nestled to the landscape to bring a closer connection between man and nature.

Diez + Muller explain more about the house’s design in connection to its concept, “In a place of imposing beauty and scale, the fragmented volume finds its way of integrating into the territory effortlessly, preserving its natural conditions. In a subtle modelling of the topography, the volume sinks and settles, achieving a sensation that it emerges from the earth — or it rises and rotates seeking distant views.”

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