The Solo Houses concept is enough to make any architecture enthusiast in search of a new experience fantasize: Collections of eight or ten unique 200m2 vacation homes, each designed by some of the most exciting architects of today’s young international guard, including Pezo Von Ellrichshausen Architects, Mos Office, Didier Faustino and his studio Mésarchitectures, Sou Fujimoto, Studio Mumbai, and TNA - Takei-Nabeshima-Architects.

Solo Houses gives each architect a carte blanche, allowing for an exceptional occasion for them to freely express their creativity with budget as the only set limit. Revolutionizing the codes of the secondary home sector, Solo Houses offers a new way of working - fresh and enthusiastic - far from the classical architect/sponsor relationship, with projects that are closer to a commission than to a real estate promotion. More than a second home, SH gives access to an unprecedented and unique architectural experience for the 21st century collector.

The first Solo Houses collection is being built in the Matarraña region of southern Catalonia, the up and coming Spanish Tuscany located a mere 40 minutes from the seaside. Perfectly independent in water and electricity access, the houses are set within lusciously green surroundings, and have only nature within sight. It is with this collection that Solo Houses inaugurates a radically independent vision of the weekend escapade for the cultivated adventurer.

September 2011 will see the completion of the very first carte blanche of the Mantarraña collection given to the Chilean studio PEZO Von ELLRICHSHAUSEN ARCHITECTS, founded by Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen in 2001. Their astounding resulting project creates contrast between patio and observation post, allowing for an open architecture where interior and exterior dialogue, where verticality and horizontality become a unified inherent logic.