Rooms carved from stone The Houses
The Houses
of Pirrera.
Index
Six houses, six places.
Six houses gathered within the same quarry, six different ways of inhabiting the stone, made to stay in rather than to sleep in. Each bears the name of a place on the island, each has its own breath.
What you cannot see from the door Every house has
Every house has
its own piece of outside.
No two terraces alike: level, orientation and shade change from house to house, because what decided them was the cut of the quarry, not the drawing.