The contemporary world is becoming increasingly inhospitable to idealists and dreamers; returns to reality are often abrupt, even brutal*. This time, however, the descent proved unexpectedly gentle.

This house originated as an ideological competition entry. Conceived initially as a manifesto rather than a building, it was elevated on three-metre columns and deliberately detached from the ground.
Now it rests on a solid foundation, fully grounded, both physically and conceptually.

Close engagement with the material shifted its perception from abstraction to substance: concrete revealed itself not as a static mass, but as a responsive medium — one that registers process, labour, and time within its surface and structure.

This project constitutes a celebration. It marks a decisive passage from the speculative domain of digital design into the reality. A conscious step toward material presence, construction, and permanence. Toward an Architecture**.

*Have you seen The Brutalist?
**pssst… a quiet reconsideration of modernist doctrine: perhaps Le Corbusier devoted more attention to the idea of concrete than to its lived, tactile reality.

To AS - for your guidance, patience, and steady presence during my architectural practice on the construction site.