The roadside house inhabits the loneliness of the north. It rises from broad blocks of blue granite masonry in the wilderness, like a fortification. The two floors of housing merge with the supporting walls of the street. At the back, they support the old farmland transformed into a garden. The silhouette embedded in the roadside is opened up by timid windows on the upper floor. At the base on the ground floor, a series of loopholes that once shed light on the cattle now illuminate the kitchen. The building stretches itself till the red gate, pointing to the threshing floor molded in the granite of the street wall. Over the entrance yard we raised a room for the owner, built in wood and painted with the color of the gate and the carpentry. The building was freed from whitewashed cement joints, sanded plaster, sheds, green shutters applied to the elevation and loose adornments. We set the patio with irregular granite walls and Portuguese cobblestone. In the garden, a sowing of grass covers the site that the owner has cut with colossal granite slabs. Inside we redesigned each and every constructive piece, reinventing the stripped and colorless reality.