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House on the Cliff

Salobreña, Spain

House on the Cliff, The house at dusk

A private commission from a young couple who chose a difficult plot on a hill with a 42-degree slope, facing the Mediterranean Sea. The task was to integrate the house into the landscape around it and to turn every living space towards the sea, with an extremely tight budget, a complex site and ambitious ideas from both client and architect.

The form of the house and its metallic roof create a calculated ambiguity between the natural and the artificial: the skin of a dragon set into the ground when seen from below, the waves of the sea when seen from above.

The house was featured in the Netflix and BBC series The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes.

Location
Salobreña, Spain
Year
2015
Area
220 m²
Status
Built
Type
Single-family house
Client
Private
Our work
Concept design, detailed design, interior design, site supervision
Credits
Photography: Jesús Granada

Images10

The house on the slope
From the hillside
Aerial view of the roof
At night
Terrace facing the sea
Interior
Scaled roof detail
Access ramp
Aerial view of the coast
Above the cliff