Stones simply tries to answer, What would have happened if the bast golden fields of Toledo were fissured? What if the Guadarrama River eroded the ground creating new landforms? New ways of farming and lifestyles would appear.
The same way water erodes surfaces, a fissure appears among the urbanizations. A fissure that brings shadow and shelter from the sun and wind.
In the creation of a dependence between crops and housing, the forms and access to the fields have changed. Growing between the old houses, new woods cover the north faces and a web of paths goes over the whole fissure, thanks to the shadow and protection. Parallel to the trees flows a river, whose forms change in order to adapt to human use.
Houses are presented as stones in the slopes, as if they were part of the landscape in constant company of vegetable gardens. Based in, apparently, independent modules, the house distribution is infinite. All of these modules are presented as an empty room, a mere window to the landscape. However, all the furniture is hidden inside the walls and into the ground. Again, this idea presents multiple ways of conceiving the same room, where everything can be moved or even disappear. Walkable roofs, skylights for ventilation, lattices and inside patios and gardens are other ways of adapting the houses to Toledo’s weather.
An uneven landscape with 160 households, more like 160 windows opened to the river, the green and the fields.