Curved structure with varied vegetation.
Summer.
Morning.
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Location
Inner side of the wall marking the northern boundary of the property. South-facing.
Vegetation
Different species of sedum, thyme and other plants.
Time and date of capture
Image taken on July 26, 2026 at 9:16 a.m., during a heatwave.
One of the first things that catches your eye when you see it is its curves.
They’re everywhere.
They appear in the walls, on the roof, in the windows.
Sometimes it’s hard to tell where one begins and another ends.
They rise. They fall. They twist. They intertwine.
At first, you see lots of curves.
After a while, you stop seeing them separately.
You start to see just one.
As if someone had drawn the entire house without lifting their pencil off the paper.
And the curious thing is that nature does something very similar.
Just look around.
Flowers.
Trees.
Volcanoes.
Clouds.
The moon.
Even the sun itself.
A walk through the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park, in the area around La Casa Verda, is enough to discover that curves win hands down.
But of course, nature is one thing. Building a house is quite another.
Building a house with straight walls is much easier.
Doors.
Windows.
Furniture.
Almost everything is designed for straight walls.
So…
Why would anyone go to all that trouble?
Jordi —that’s his name, and we’ll introduce him properly later— had a very clear idea.
He wanted the building to look as though it belonged in the landscape.
So that, seen from a distance or from above, it would be hard to tell there was a house there.
As if it had always been there.
As if it had slowly grown over time.
He soon realised that, if he wanted to achieve this, curves were no longer an option. They were a necessity.
A straight wall can give a building away. A curve can be mistaken for just another hill.
But something curious happened.
As construction progressed, more and more people stopped to look at it.
The harder Jordi tried to make it go unnoticed…
The more curiosity it sparked.
And although the curves tend to get all the attention at first, the building isn’t called The Curved House.
It’s not the curves that give La Casa Verda its name and colour.
It’s the vegetation.
