A House Made of Three Becoming One

Project

Montserrat House

Status

Under construction

Type

House

Year

2025

Location

Montserrat, Spain

Credits

Marin Marinović
Pablo Barquero

On a corner plot outside Valencia that once held three separate dwellings, a single house is now being built.

The brief was simple: a future free of upkeep and division. One home, not three, where a family could gather rather than scatter. Two timber-clad volumes lean toward each other beneath sloped roofs, echoing the vernacular houses around them in a more abstract language. Between them, a glazed threshold opens to a walled garden, where a single olive tree stands as if it had always been there.

From the street the house reads as discreet, almost modest, a continuation of the block's rhythm rather than an interruption of it. But its geometry carries a private ambition: to hold a family's full life, and its later simplification, inside one coherent form.

This is architecture for a life stage, the moment three becomes one, and a home stops being managed and starts, again, to be lived in.