Residential
Mavrovo Sunny Valley
Mavrovo, North Macedonia
Held in the Valley
Each villa sits on its own bench cut into the meadow, and the roofs are kept flat and planted so the settlement disappears from above. Read on the plan it looks like an efficiency. Walked through, it is the thing that makes the scheme feel considered rather than merely resolved.
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Exterior Perspective
The building is a group of villas placed so that no house takes the view from another, and it reads that way at a glance. Nothing had to be explained to the people using it.
At this scale, each villa sits on its own bench cut into the meadow, and the roofs are kept flat and planted so the settlement disappears from above. It is the part of the scheme a visitor never remarks on and would notice immediately if it were not there.
“Ask what the project is and the answer is short: a group of villas placed so that no house takes the view from another. Keeping it short was the work.”
- Parallel Group Architects
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