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 you notice when you look at it is its curves.
They are everywhere.
They appear in the walls, the roof, the windows.
Sometimes it is hard to tell where one begins and another ends.
They rise. They fall. They turn. They intertwine.
At first, you see lots of curves.
After a while, you stop seeing them separately.
You begin to see just one.
As if someone had drawn the entire house without lifting the pencil from the paper.
And the curious thing is that nature does something very similar.
You only have to look around.
The flowers.
The trees.
The volcanoes.
The clouds.
The moon.
Even the sun itself.
And you do not have to go far to see it.
In the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park, the landscape surrounding La Casa Verda, curves win by a landslide.
But of course, nature is one thing. Building a house is quite another.
Building a house with straight walls is much easier.
The doors.
The windows.
The furniture.
Almost everything is designed with them in mind.
So…
Why would anyone make life so difficult for themselves?
Jordi —that is the name of that someone, and we will introduce him properly later— had a very clear idea.
He wanted the building to look as though it belonged to the landscape.
So that, from a certain distance or from a bird’s-eye view, it would be difficult to even notice 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 that, curves were no longer an option. They were a necessity.
But something curious happened.
As construction progressed, more and more people stopped to look at it.
The more Jordi tried to make it blend into the background…
The more curiosity it sparked.
And although the curves tend to get all the attention at first, the building is not called La Casa Curva.
The element that ultimately gives La Casa Verda its name and colour is not the curves.
It is the vegetation.
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