# @dwellmagazine on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-07-17T19:57:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dwell (@dwellmagazine) — https://gondola.cc/dwellmagazine

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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.
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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 accommodate his young children and elderly father. Entering the unfurling space, one is struck by the harmony of the whole. Light pours through large windowpanes at the front and back of the building, while windowless concrete walls allow the floorplan to literally hang in the balance. But beyond the engineering feat, the home also proposes a social journey. During construction, friends found the design “rather extreme,” and the villa was the talk of the town, attracting unconvinced neighbors. The finished home is a different story. “Now people just love to have a coffee on the rooftop,” Ruiz-Geli told us proudly. And that’s what fuels the architect’s crusade to bring avant-garde architecture to the region: The unique harmony between social norms, technology, and pure idealism gives birth to buildings that are bold and livable and, above all else, fuse with their environments. #Dwellarchives | September, 2006 | Photos by gunnarknechtel | Story by Karim Massoteau

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