Christian Bourdais, a French entrepreneur, decided one day to step away from his career as a specialized furniture design merchant and transition into an unconventional commissioner and promoter of architecture. This is how he conceived a space where architects could design without restrictions imposed by the environment, codes, or clients.
He initiated a collection of designs commissioned freely for a remote enclave set against the majestic Los Puertos de Beceite Natural Park in the Spanish region of Aragón. Thus, the Solo Houses took shape, with the purpose of exploring architecture in its purest form.
Under these conditions, we ventured to explore our most radical conception of interaction with the domestic environment. This conception does not impose a pattern of habitability that categorizes spaces according to predefined functions but rather explores a new type of space that can be interpreted individually through the physical possibilities granted by architecture and its intrinsic relationship with the natural landscape. It is for this reason that we have established an aesthetic definition of a module that replicates, duplicates, and stacks itself, extending over the landscape with the sole purpose of providing shelter, accompanied by various specific relationships with the surrounding context.
Our design for the Solo House consists of twenty-three cubes of identical dimensions, which are individualized through openings arranged in varied configurations. These cubes extend in all directions, both horizontally and vertically, in order to merge with the panoramas and enhance their aesthetic value. Simultaneously, they invite the user to discover the landscape in which they are immersed.
