The project layers is the design of a house for a family in Massachusetts.

The house is located on a sloping site 100 meter from the Atlantic coast. The functions and the volume are organized in layers, which respond to the topography and the vegetation.

The shape of the house is generated to the specifics of the site. The existing trees are protected. The building interlocks with the vegetation through its volumetric system. The interior spaces define the relationship with the outside and create different definitions of the individual subject through its vision, depending of its locations of the house. The house folds back on itself, it redefines itself depending on the subject’s location from within or from outside. The individual has to constitute itself while rediscovering its relationship to its surrounding. When the house focuses the view to the outside it creates three different relationships: It operates with the Far, the view towards the skyline of Boston as the Background. The view on the neighboring trees in the Middle Ground, and the Immediate view on the vegetation and the large tree on the site creates the immediate relation to the Fore Ground. Different modes of perception create the awareness of the complexity and multiplicity in which we operate today.