Belgian architects David Van Severen and Kersten Geers were more than a decade into their practice when they first visited Matarraña, , in 2012. They went at the invitation of art-world power duo Eva Albarrán and Christian Bourdais, who had acquired a sprawling undeveloped estate in the rural region and had met the up-and-coming designers while trawling for talent at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale. Van Severen and Geers, whose won the event’s prestigious Silver Lion Award for Most Promising Young Practice, were just what they were looking for. Impressed by the architects’ vision, Albarrán and Bourdais enlisted them to design a high-end vacation home that challenged the very notion of what such a house could be.

They had never experienced a site visit quite like this one. As Albarrá

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