A hundred-year-old fig tree, the unevenness between the street and the garden and the humility of neighbouring buildings define the project. The house is located between the slope and the fig tree, respecting it and making it the protagonist.

The day area is located on the semi-basement floor, in direct contact with the garden and with a patio that incorporates the fig tree and favors cross ventilation. The rest of the program is organized in a small volume of ground floor and floor, which gives volumetric continuity to the whole. An annex volume generates the double height of the living room, opens the look towards the fig tree and acts as a filter with respect to the neighboring building.

Access occurs between the two volumes, through an outdoor courtyard from the street, while a covered staircase connects directly to the garden. The house takes advantage of the natural slope almost without earth movement, placing the living-dining-kitchen and the play area in direct relation to the outside.

The night program, designed for two adults and two children, is distributed in equivalent spaces without hierarchy, on both sides of the staircase, sharing a single toilet. The sloping roof allows you to take advantage of the toilet ceiling as a children’s play area, evoking the idea of a cabin in the tree.

The project dialogues with neighboring constructions through an honest and economical construction system, with concrete block load walls, insulation and exposed collaborative roof. The materiality is visible and provides thermal inertia.

The porches, balconies and rope shutters protect from solar radiation, while the block walls, the concrete pavement and the patio with the fig tree favor the good environmental behavior of the house. A double-height fireplace helps reduce air stratification.