Casa Salamandra is a lovely mountain house located in Las Navas del Marqués, Spain, designed in 2019 by Myriam Lopez Rodero.

Description
The clients wanted to have a holiday home in the mountains surrounding Madrid. They wanted to have a house where they could escape the busy city of Madrid, during the weekends, and enjoy the nature and fresh air. They bought a plot of land on the hillside of a pine forest, with stunning views of the forest and the mountains.
The project tries to respect its location and the steepness of the plot (10m height difference) by placing a house that respects the mountain by not touching the ground and tries to keep as many of the existing trees intact. With these premises and the idea of getting the most of the views of the surrounding forest, an articulated floor plan is formed. ?Each room/function of the house is separated from the rest, each one has a different shape and orientation, framing the landscape as you walk through the house. These functions are linked by glass joints, and make a continuum of spaces that make you feel you are on a walk through the forest, there are little partitions in the house and minimal height differences (only to adapt to the slope). What links them all is a common pitched roof, typical of the area, this together with the different orientations of the rooms, make that the roof becomes an exciting landscape.
Two materials are used in the dwelling, CLT wood panels and black ...