This incredible house in Fafe (Portugal) is built on two gigantic rocks making it appear as directly produced by the imagination of Hayao Miyazaki. The concrete’s texture is also maintaining an ambiguous relationship with the rocks as the limits between the two is not so clear.
Found on Arkhe Tupos. (all photographs are from Feliciano Guimarães)
Hi,
there are a few more places in Portugal where people have built house against or inside boulders, such as in the Monsanto Village (in this case, granite).
I found a website with few pics.
http://wallacethinksagain.blogspot.com/2010/03/monsanto-portugal.html
Hello Carla,
thank you very much for the link. It’s impressive indeed. It’s strange that Rudofsky did not document this crazy Portuguese vernacularity !!!
See you soon hopefully.
Leopold
There is one house made of stone in México too. It´s called, “La casita de piedra” in Zacualtipán, Hidalgo, México