This fair-faced concrete house was designed by Arhitektura Krus?ec to look like rocks emerging from a sloped meadow facing the Slovenian Alps (+ slideshow).

The Slovenia-based studio wanted to impact the landscape as little as possible and capitalise on surrounding views with its design for House on Golo.

The home was divided into a trio of volumes on different levels, which respond to both the topography of the site and the silhouette of the peaks opposite.

"The house was designed as a composition of three volumes, laid out in such a way that they follow the configuration of the terrain, keeping the topography of the site completely unchanged," architect Jurij Nemec told Dezeen.

"We leave the site as it was with only three 'concrete rocks' added to the middle of the existing lawn."
Large windows in each volume frame the peaks of three mountain ranges: Julian Alps, Karawanks and Kamnik?Savinja Alps, and the view towards the valley.

Crushed rocks that were excavated at the building site mixed into the concrete, which is also coloured to mimic the layers of the soil below as a way to embed the house into the landscape.

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"When we excavated the construction pit we were very taken with the characteristic colour of the rocks and the way that they were layered," explained Nemec.

"This experience led us to a...