Casa en la Ladera de un Castillo by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos

This bright white wedge-shaped house by Spanish studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos thrusts out from the rock face behind it in the valley town of Ayora, near Valencia (+ slideshow).

The angled roof mirrors the slope of the surrounding ground, creating triangular elevations on the sides of the three-storey building.

Large panels slide across windows on the front and side of the house to maintain privacy for bedrooms on the middle floor.

The top floor is twice the size of the floors below and contains a third bedroom, as well as a living room that opens out onto a secluded courtyard.

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Photography is by Fernando Alda and Juan Rodríguez.

Here's some text from the architects:

House on Mountainside Overlooked by Castle
Ayora, Valencia

The building is located in a landscape of unique beauty, the result of a natural and evident growth.

The mountain, topped by a castle, is covered by a blanket housing through a system of aggregation by simple juxtaposition of pieces generated fragmented target tissue that adapts to the topography.

The project proposes to integrate into the environment, respecting their strategies of adaptation to the environment and materials away from the mimesis that would lead to misleading historicism, and showing the time constructively to meet the requirements of the "new people."

In this way the house is conceived as a piece placed on the ground, joining in the gap.

A piece built on the same white lime, the same primacy of the massif on the opening, which takes the edge of the site to have their holes and integrated into the fragmentation of the environment.

The indoor space is divided by the void that is the core of communication cut parallel disposition of the mountain without touching it.

On the ground floor are the garage and cellar, on a volume it has two floors with four rooms.

Two of them, the rooms at the intermediate level are open to the private street, the other two on the upper level overlook above the houses opposite, the Valley of Ayora.