To build on the Atlantic islands implies a strong confrontation with nature. Not that this confrontation doesn’t happen in other places, but the vegetation of Madeira bring that relation to the forefront. In this project for a pavilion of houses in the Jasmineiro, we propose a very simple structure: the framework of a building that can accommodate different modes of inhabitation. A house is not bedrooms and living rooms, but the space in which we organise our lives. For that reason, fixed infrastructures (entrances, bathrooms, kitchen, etc.) here allow as many possible internal organisations as the imagination and needs of inhabitants require. The floors open themselves frankly to the outside and, at the perimeter of the small plot, it is the vegetation that builds the architecture of the place. The island’s exuberant species define a biological curtain that inverts the conventional priority of the architect: vegetation replaces the wall.