Sit Tibi Terra Levis proposes a settlement and open-air museum situated on a rural Portuguese hillside. The project explores a methodology of design that engages in an expansive, open-ended dialogue with cultural, historical, phenomenological, and environmental aspects. Through the use of schema as a design tool and re-presentation as a strategy, the hillside site is reconstructed with stories derived from Portuguese folk narratives, portraying 'Father' Portugal as a firm but beloved father figure to the bodies and lands it has subjugated. Architectural forms created from forgotten histories are recontextualised and reinvented, distorting linearity and carrying characteristics from these original sources to a new time and place. Ideas of singular authorship and the typically 'definite' hand of the architect are questioned as Sit Tibi Terra Levis asks what can happen to architectural design practice if we allow self-organising worlds to flourish?