The design of the house pursues this same strategy of experimental flexibility and magnifies how adequate distribution of natural elements such as sunlight, prevailing winds, soil conditions and water availability, influence its foot print. Here, unlike known villas of the past contained inside a box, Alta Mar's program is fragmented. Objects extending towards the gardens denote the spatial ambiguities between interior and exterior rooms which accentuate the dispersed shifts. The use of independent structural entities minimizes stress during seismic movement. As a result, enhanced optic frames transcend layers of rooms maintaining constant visual contact with the ocean, land and the magnificent city contours. House @ -1° Latitude, 81° Longitude.Manta, Ecuador