A clay home inspired by sacred geometry in Argentina.

This is Ezekiel and Violeta's clay home in Villa La Angostura, Patagonia, Argentina. The home was designed using elements of sacred geometry; the lemniscate and viviani curves.

The roof was designed using the viviani curve which is the intersection of a sphere with a cylinder. The second floor is the shape of a lotus leaf. The body of the home is inspired by the lemniscate, the symbol of infinity, which helps to balances the space in the house.

The walls of this house use only natural materials found close to the building site. Clay, straw, sand, pumice and colihue (a frost-tolerant bamboo) were used. The outer walls are made from 1 part clay, 1 part pumice, 1 part wood chips and 1 part straw. The internal walls are adobe bricks (clay, sand & straw). The structural columns of the building are 8m (26ft) tall cypress roundwood timbers that had fallen naturally in the nearby national park woodlands. You can see more of the building in Ezequiel & Violeta blog (in Spanish).