Casa Aldea

Casa Aldea began as a question: how do you build a home on land so beautiful it resists being built upon? The answer was to yield — to orient every room toward the view, to draw the outside in, to use materials that the land itself has always made.

The result is a home of 4,800 square feet that sits not on its site, but within it. A long cedar-clad volume anchored to a basalt plinth, with a cantilevered living pavilion that extends over the slope to meet the tree canopy.