Every once in a while, we like to take a look back at past issues of Dwell to remember the special spaces we’ve been lucky enough to publish, including this Catalonian home that graced the pages of our September 2006 issue. – For the architectural tourist, the very mention of Barcelona brings to mind the fantastical world of Antoni Gaudí. Despite the 21st-century gloss of the economic hub, the city’s greatest design export remains the eccentric turn-of-the-(last)-century designer. A few blocks away from Gaudí’s Casa Batllo and Casa Milà, in an alien cube set within a garden, Gaudí’s heir apparent, enricruizgeli_cloud9, is quietly plotting the next Catalan design revolution. The Villa Bio, as it’s known, takes the form of a sloping coiled snake with an underground garage and a 50-foot cantilevered section. The shape grows directly out of the land, echoing the sloping hillside forest that sits beyond the property line—and honoring the client’s request for a home without stairs to accommo...