Casa Umbral

Over time, architecture evolved, but its essence remained. Humans continued building shelters closed off from the outside world, seeking protection without forsaking light and air. Courtyards, cloisters, and gardens hidden behind walls of clay and stone emerged. The sky became a roof, nature a part of the interior.

Today, in contemporary architecture, this duality persists. Walls that protect yet open to let in the clarity of day. Spaces where shadow and light engage in dialogue, where materials blend with the landscape. Windows that frame the horizon, materials that evoke the earth and its history.

To inhabit is more than to occupy a space. It is to create a refuge where nature is not excluded but reinterpreted. As in the ancestral cave, we continue to seek balance between protection and openness, between the shadow that shelters and the light that reminds us of the world beyond.