Poetics of Montage

The construction of Casa BM unfolded within a dynamic framework shaped by fluctuating resources, on-site skills, and material costs. Simplifications, successive stratifications, and improvisation guided the process, creating a poetics of montage where materials, techniques, and knowledge are juxtaposed and reassembled, generating unexpected spatial qualities. Constraints became opportunities, and the act of building merged observation with experimentation.

Transforming Preexistence

Casa BM integrates a 1970s building with a new L-shaped volume in exposed concrete and wood. The internal layout is inverted, turning the former rear into the main facade and establishing a south-facing interior and exterior living area open to the landscape yet shielded from the street and neighboring buildings. This reversal reconciles site contradictions while shaping a harmonious relationship with the surroundings.

Spatial Continuity and Layering

Reinforced concrete walls punctuate the garden and interiors, mediating shifts in level and connecting indoor and outdoor spaces. The home balances intimate domestic scales with expansive landscape views, creating a continuous dialogue between interior and exterior, private and panoramic. The large composite south-facing wood frame brings the surroundings into daily life while regulating exposure.

Interior-Exterior Interplay

A funnel-shaped plywood recess links the existing and new volumes, hosting the entrance, study, and living area with fireplace, which opens to a covered terrace over the slope. At all levels, flexible spaces emerge along the edges of structured areas, offering niches, benches, and counters in sun and shade—spaces for retreat, socializing, or contemplation.

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