Villa Lago, a new project by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos

DATE

15.12.2025

The proposal puts forward an architecture that intertwines with the garden, maximising the perimeter of contact with the landscape and dissolving the boundaries between the built and the natural.

In this area of Madrid, this relationship with the surroundings takes on a particular significance. To achieve this, a compact volumetry is deliberately avoided in favour of an ascending layout that evokes certain works by Alfaro.

The proposal puts forward an architecture that intertwines with the garden, maximising the perimeter of contact with the landscape and dissolving the boundaries between the built and the natural. In this area of Madrid, this relationship with the surroundings takes on a particular significance. To achieve this, a compact volumetry is deliberately avoided in favour of an ascending layout that evokes certain works by Alfaro.

The project seeks to resolve a dichotomy: to be both geometric and organic. Although its structure is precise, the inhabitant perceives it as something natural, almost as if it had settled into the site in an apparently random manner.

Villa Lago combines two ancestral archetypes: the pavilion, understood as an open and centrifugal space, and the courtyard, conceived as a more contained and open-air realm. The pieces are configured as longitudinal, through-running elements, generated by means of a large-radius curve. These volumes are juxtaposed to optimise circulation. From this relationship emerge five gardens with distinct identities, defined by the architectural layout.

At the lower level are the swimming pool and guest rooms; above, the daytime living areas unfold, oriented towards the nearby view of a lake; and at the highest level are the night spaces, gathered into a single element that acts as a bridge and creates a generous shaded terrace beneath. At the point where the different pieces converge lies the circulation core, which articulates the levels and reinforces the continuity between architecture and landscape.

The project is rooted in something as ancient as it is essential to architecture: proportion. It is through the meticulously calibrated width of its elements that the desired spatial relationship is achieved. Nothing more and nothing less.