With a cutting gesture into an ideal green hill, local firm nicolas firket architects's design for 'villa ARRA' a private countryside home in belgium meticulously breaks the villa typology. while bucolic greenery brings to mind warm, rustic architectonics, the residence pointedly edits notions of architectural and natural harmony with its brilliant use of gridded pavers as cladding. an informal type of concrete masonry unit (CMU) ordinarily used to create environmentally friendly turfscapes, the rhomboid forms take on an different materiality as the building's envelope. the high-performance skin conceptually enhances an architecture that respects the rolling hills of its picturesque context while allowing for grass growth and water runoff. the textured facade is complemented by L-shaped glazed walls that perpendicularly stagger into the hollow ridge of the hill. the villa quietly sinks into the greenery; the illusion of a cantilever is filled with a program lit by the ripples of reflected light.