KARLA
MONTAUTI

Award-winning architecture and art practice working across buildings, territories and cultural narratives.

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    LAND-SCAPE RETREAT


    LAND-SCAPE RETREAT
    Middle East, 2025

    Land-Scape Retreat begins with the desire to inhabit silence.

    Set within an arid and expansive territory, the project imagines architecture as a gesture of restraint: a delicate presence that listens to the land, frames the horizon and protects the act of dwelling without overwhelming the landscape.

    Conceived almost as a nest, the retreat becomes a place of protection, pause and contemplation. It does not seek to disconnect from the world, but to recover a deeper form of connection through stillness, material restraint and the presence of the land.

    Art, landscape and architecture become part of the same gesture: a careful act of framing rather than occupying.

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    Design lead by Karla Montauti, as Associate Director at Benoy, London
    Hand sketches and collages: Karla Montauti
    Team: Jonas Bailey-Athias and Maggie Arulnathan



















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