Architect Alfonso Arango has designed himself a 24-square-metre weekend retreat next to his childhood home overlooking the Andes mountains in Colombia.

Arango's House on The Mist is located next door to his family's residence in La Calera ? a small town in the eastern reaches of the mountains. It is located 11 miles from Colombia's capital city Bogotá, where the architect lives during the week.
Designed as a weekend getaway, the cabin has compact proportions that offer just enough space for a kitchen, bathroom and living area ? which Arango will also use as a studio ? and a mezzanine bedroom.

"I started to plan and build the house in the mist when I left my parents home, so it's a very nostalgic project," Arango told Dezeen.
"I will use the house as a weekend house, so I can work on my projects at the end of the week with fresh air away from the city, and also to visit my grandma."
The cabin is a simple structure, comprising a pair of 4.2-metre square slabs that form the floor and the rooftop, which is covered in greenery.

"The roof is proposed as a high garden where birds and winds bring a wide variety of seeds and spores of the endemic flora, allowing free and spontaneous vegetation growth of a garden a few metres near the skies," said the architect in a statement.

As the area is prone to "very cold and humid nights", the structure is set at a 45-degree angle to mountains in the north. A large glass-brick window on the north-e...