The House of infinite, project of Alberto Campo Baeza, is made by an infinite plane facing the infinite sea.
A stone platform that emerges at the very edge of the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, where the sea unites the new and the old continent.
The building is a podium crowned by an upper horizontal plane. On this resoundingly horizontal plane, bare and denuded, the visitor face out to the distant horizon traced by the sea where the sun goes down. A horizontal plane on high built in stone, Roman travertine, as if it were sand, an infinite plane facing the infinite sea. Nothing more and nothing less.
To materialize this elevated horizontal plane, which is the main living room of the house, it has been built a large box with 20 meters of frontage and 36 meters deep. And under those first 12 meters, two floors have been excavated in the solid rock to develop the whole living space.
To give even greater force to the platform all the terrain has been incorporated as far back as the entrance wall separating from the street, also done in Roman travertine. Once inside the wall, the entrance to the house will be via a “trench” in the form of stairs dug into the upper surface of the platform.
Campo Baeza said, about the house: “We wanted this house to be capable not only of making time stand still, but to remain in the minds and hearts of humankind. The house of the infinite.”
Images courtesy of Alberto Campo Baeza
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