Appropriating the basalt walls of an old ruin, the house rises from a play of occlusions and apertures, retentions and overflowings, in dialogue with the surrounding landscape.
Sitting on a hillside of the northern coast of Pico Island, in the Archipelago of the Azores, the C/Z House tries to make the most of the different views it can enjoy thanks to its vantage position over the sea and the mountain, resting on the slope