Rambla Climate-House shows how suburban homes can support biodiversity

Spanish architects Andrés Jaque and Miguel Mesa del Castillo have built a climate-conscious house that restores the drought-tolerant ecology of a site on the outskirts of Murcia.
Rambla Climate-House is raised up on stilts above a wild landscape, designed to preserve the site's soil humidity and rejuvenate its biodiversity.
The fissured topography is modelled on the ravines – or "ramblas" as they are called in Spanish – that existed before the Molina de Segura a