house of the mother

new residence

Type: Residential

Location: Isabela, Puerto Rico

Year: 2019-2023

Status: Unbuilt

Design Team: Armando Rigau, Silvana Herrera & Ryan Glick

Collaborators: Consultants and others

Description: On a remote cliff where land meets water, a villa’s design fractures a four-square grid to define primary living spaces according to the surroundings. The unfolded section captures this experience as a continuous promenade of everyday life. Each vertical line demarcates a “turn” in function and type of view, from mountain setting to ocean horizon. As Heidegger would want, this “ideal” villa - while small - might gather the fourfold. Bringing together the earth, sky, mortals, and perhaps even the divinities, this architecture – in time – might reveal something about ourselves, others, or the mystery of that which might come after.