translates as “the House of the Five Peaks,” a reference to the prominently pitched, shed-like gables that largely define the appearance of this family getaway in the rocky foothills of the Guadarrama Mountains north of Madrid, Spain. According to the architects, Clara Ulargui Aparicio and Luis Aguilar Benavides of Positivelivings, the points themselves also reference several key elements that informed their design. The most obvious is the home’s jagged, mountainous setting. Another, perhaps subtler, homage is to the traditional forms of Spanish industrial architecture:
