Not only does the arid plane of concrete promote a life of leisure, it also anticipates the flooding of a nearby pool. Resting on this plinth, and with a cross-shaped floor plan open on the cardinal points, is a wooden volume that in turn supports a crown of weighty eaves that repeat the plan of the plinth. Shade is a literal geometric projection between plinth and eaves. With a vertical symmetry, the modest program is pressed between these two horizontal planes. Inside, the entity has a dual expanse: a front one facing the valley and a diagonal one that makes the rooms converge on a central space with four columns with skylights. This interior may be understood as a single enclosed space divided into four corners, two extended and two centralized. Read in a circle, the four rooms form a sequence a-b-a-b, a form of world within a world. This schema, elaborated as a unitary, integral system, is simply the construction of an idealized refuge. All the services go to form another asymmetrical cross, a wall of habitable thickness that barely touches the perimeter envelope and is hollowed out at the precise point of contact between its bands. The house structure is aligned diagonally with a young chestnut tree which, once grown, will protect the house from the northern rain.