The living room resembles a large eye with a curved window and an eyelash-like eave that protects against dust, wind, sun, and rain.
At the eastern edge of Texas Hill Country, a private retreat known as the Hill Country Wine Cave is embedded into the face of a rocky hillside. Austin- and San Antonio–based firm Clayton Korte carefully designed the 1,405-square-foot subterranean cellar and lounge, utilizing lush vegetation and large boulders collected on-site to further conceal the main entry.
OUTrail House by Polish architectural practice KWK PROMES has a basement level that was “carved out” of a piece of the grass-covered site, and its roof turned into a green atrium that blends in with it’s grassy surroundings.
Embedded into the top of a hill, Villa Ypsilon in the Greek seaside village of Messenia has a Y-shaped green roof promenade that is an extension of the terrain.
