Designed as Landscape: Fran Silvestre Architects maximises Perimeter, Light and Views in a Curvilinear Villa

This Madrid villa rethinks domestic architecture as landscape—curved, layered, and garden-led. Set within Madrid’s open terrain, this villa treats landscape as a design engine rather than a backdrop. Fran Silvestre Architects sets out to maximise the home’s perimeter of contact with the garden—expanding the edge condition so daily life stays in constant dialogue with the outdoors. The villa begins with a deliberate refusal: it rejects compactness in favour of an elongated, ascending composition formed through wide-radius curves. This move introduces the project’s key complexity—maintaining crisp architectural control while achieving a geometry that feels almost natural, as if it belongs to […]