DOWN UP HOUSE
Avignon-Clouet Architectes
ARCHITECTS
Avignon-Clouet Architectes
AREA
50 m²
YEAR
2011
LOCATON
FRANCE
CATEGORY
HOUSES
Text description provided by architect.
A long wooded corridor lined with services (laundry, bathroom, dressing, toilets) leads to panoramic bedrooms overhanging the garden, via two hidden stairs.
Between these two volumes is inserted a room opened outwards.
To create the interface with the current house, the new volume is completely glazed.
It gives the impression of a levitating architecture that wouldn't dare resting on the ground of this limited landscape area.
But most of all, the extension of this raised ground floor flat, from a 19th century's building, is an exploit!
Indeed, the access between the street and the garden was unthinkable with a narrow corridor ending in square angle and a partly buried extension.
Without the strong will of the architect and the builder to take up the challenge, this project would never have emerged.
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