Project
Mirror House: The Stillness That Reveals the Infinite
Category
Best Project of Private Residence
About the project (provided by the applicant)
Five landscapes, five breaths, one single stroke.
A minimal geometry that falls silent so the land may speak.
The structure rests on slender stilts as if it wished to merely graze the ground: a pure, polished prism. On its mirrored skin, snow-capped peaks, canyons ablaze at dusk, golden forests, a motionless emerald lake, and an ashen shore discover themselves. The glass is no ornament; it is surrender. Everything the house possesses is what the territory lends it for an instant.
Inside, penumbra mixes with raw shafts of light. Matter has been reduced to the essential: hushed timber, stone still murmuring of the quarry, water tracing a faint vein across marble. Textures converse in low voices, careful not to distract from the pulse outside. Each wall is a pause; each opening, a breath.
This is not a dwelling designed for everyday comfort but a threshold into contemplation. From within, the open air feels vaster, as though the boundaries between body and horizon had dissolved.
Location
La Habana, Cuba
Project design year
2025
Project website
https://www.behance.net/gallery/226163065/MIRROR-HOUSE-The-Stillness-That-Reveals-the-Infinite
Extra visual materials
https://www.behance.net/gallery/226163065/MIRROR-HOUSE-The-Stillness-That-Reveals-the-Infinite
https://youtu.be/x3DbmTVCm1s?si=412wBKE-xZfuqoVt
Applicant
Orlando Pérez
Architect, 25 y.o., based in Havana, Cuba
Author of the project
Orlando Pérez
Visualization
Orlando Pérez
Status of the project
Working drawings
