The house is essentially a parallelepiped, a container, the “cube that functions” advocated by Le Corbusier, which has the bedrooms buried beneath the large volume that serves as the living room, dining room, and kitchen, and which will be the only visible part of the house. The plot, measuring 805 m2, is noticeably rectangular with a street frontage of 16.14 m. Leaving the 5 m regulatory side setbacks required by the ordinance, a bay of just over 6 m remains, which forces the house to be developed in height. However, this has not implied a loss of contact with the natural terrain, because, given the slope of the land, the house has been designed so that there is direct access to the exterior from each floor. With this criterion, the land adjacent to the house has been terraced so that the resulting terraces always remain within the limits allowed by the ordinance, each with its own diverse uses depending on which part of the house they are linked to.

We discovered that in a house built on sloping land, the need to create these “horizontal” surfaces becomes a determining factor, both around the house and on the roof itself, which becomes an area for living in the open air, under the pine trees. Due to the rising section of the terrain and given that the house platforms are buried into it as we move away from the street, a single floor slab is simultaneously the ground floor at the rear and the first floor at the front, as it remains above the level immediately below, which configures the ground floor with respect to its relative height. Agreeing on this solution with the City Council allowed us to optimize and multiply the usable surface of the house without exceeding the volume or the number of permitted floors indicated by the Regulations.

At street level is the garage, planned for two cars, slightly buried and located in the center of the plot. The garage is illuminated through a glazed area that overlooks the bamboo garden that accompanies the pedestrian access to the plot. Access is achieved by a staircase of concrete steps without risers, anchored to the partition wall bordering the plot on the right (facing the house). From there, and crossing a small lake (with all the symbolism of walking on water), one climbs to the upper terrace. Behind the garage is the access to the dwelling itself, the stairs, the elevator, the storage rooms, the cellar, and the machine room. This floor, which does not compute for urban planning purposes, is set back from the limits that could have been occupied to cause less impact on the land, as per municipal prescription.

The next floor (with the dual status of Ground Floor and Basement) is divided into three bedrooms, which share two bathrooms. One of them, the master bedroom, has the bathroom incorporated in a "suite" form, even spatially, given that the upper part of the wall separating the bathroom from the bedroom is a flush glass pane that allows the rooms to connect. Sharing facilities on the other side is the second bathroom that serves the other two bedrooms. At the back is the gym, with its ping-pong table, which incorporates, hidden in a wall, the laundry and dryer area, with access to the exterior—specifically to the area behind the pool—to be able to hang clothes, far from the view of the visitor and the inhabitants of the house themselves.

The upper floor, the only “complete” one intended for the “day area,” is composed of the living room and the kitchen-dining room. The space has a “double height” of 4.50 m, in a section with the dimensions of the floor plan and its 17 meters in length (which gives about 110 m2). The space intended for the living room functions as a box of light and has two of its sides solidified to enhance its sculptural aspect, over which windows of various types are cut, while it enjoys views on three of its sides. One of the sides remains open to the access garden, while the other opens to the rear courtyard through a longitudinal window that, like a display case, will contain diverse objects from travels or allow one to read in it.

Between the living room and the dining room, an interior garden has been created, recovering the trunks of the trees that were cut down when building the house, placing them against the wall that serves as a support to collect the blinds of the exterior enclosure. Cut lengthwise, not in slices, and “replanted” inside the house as a living memory of what was on the site before the house was built.