Teusaca

The plan breaks into three low wings: one for the owners, one for guests, and one given over to cooking, dining, and entertaining. Seen from the lawn, they read as separate pavilions, each under a thin roof that tilts at its own angle and reaches past the walls. The pitches answer the ridgelines behind them, and the house never rises above a single story, so the mountains remain the tallest thing in view.

Arrival is set by stone. Long walls of local sandstone, laid in tight horizontal courses, define the entry court and lead visitors along broad concrete pavers set into gravel, between beds of rosemary and feather grass. At dusk, uplighting grazes the stone and turns its rough face gold. The front door sits recessed beneath a flat concrete canopy, flanked by glass offering a first view through the house.

Inside, the greenhouse concept takes over. The corridors linking the wings are roofed in glass between slender dark steel beams, which cast moving bands of shadow across the floor as the day turns. Fiddle-leaf figs, ferns, and broad-leafed understory plants grow in beds running the length of these galleries, so moving from bedroom to kitchen means walking through a garden. In narrower passages, a skylight slot washes a stone wall above a planted strip.

The social wing opens beneath a warm timber ceiling to glass on three sides. Dark reclaimed wood floors run from the living room to a long dining table under a glass chandelier, and out to a covered terrace whose slatted ceiling curves overhead. A stone fireplace wall, with firewood stacked in recessed niches, anchors the lounge through cold highland evenings, and a circular glass oculus set into the floor adds a note of surprise.

The owners’ bedroom speaks the same language at a quieter register, with a timber ceiling and full-height glass to the lawn. Throughout, three materials carry the design: local stone, cast-in-place concrete, and reclaimed wood. Together with the sloping rooflines, they settle the house into its pasture, eucalyptus, and pond, as if it had always belonged there.