steep gradient

What do you do when your site is a steep slope? Either you flatten the whole thing like an image in Photoshop or you embrace the damn thing. Fortunately for us, that's what the architects Asensio Mah did for the Q-House in northern Spain. Due to this, they have created a sort of alternative domestic atmosphere for the residents. They have come up with a building that is arranged into 3 axes centred around a central circulation point. They have also placed the residence in a northeast-southwest direction to gain as much daylight as possible for each room.

Saying that, similar to my previous posting of ZONE-E's project for the miners social housing project, Asensio Mah have also clad the building in a dark composite panel. These panels have been fabricated digitally to delineate the various volumes of the building.