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RAFAEL ARANDA, METAL HOUSE, GIRONA 2017

SPANIARD Aranda (and partner Carme Pigem) created this wonderful building for Michelin star chef Fina Puigdevall in the countryside, near Olot. A private home, it challenges traditional assumptions about homes and farms.

It came about when Fina was chatting with former classmate Carme about revamping her restaurant Les Cols plus building a new home. Neither of them could have imagined that ten years on the former would become a celebrated Michelin-starred chef, and the latter a Pritzker-prize winner in 2017.

The building sits 1.5m below the top level of the field, creating a differentiation between the two lifestyles. The house seems disjointed on the surfa-