- Project
maison 1366
- Architect
USAGES
- Programme
Eco-responsive refurbishment of a 1961 family house
- About
Living in the world with a lighter step is a benevolent act.
From the outset, we wanted to find an opportunity to take care of an obsolete habitat, to reveal its qualities and awaken the relationships it enables us to have with the places and environments in which we live.
In the renovation of this ordinary terraced house from the 1960s, the transformation of the spaces, their materiality and the techniques used attempt to establish a desirable new relationship with the environment and all living things. The house is made more robust, independent and economical.
The habitable potential of the house is deployed. Retained spaces and extensions, interior and exterior are intertwined.
The architects experimented exclusively with natural and reused materials. The front facade is covered in untreated expanded cork, which blends in with the neighbouring tones, while the rear extension is clad in large planks of untreated local chestnut. An adobe slab forms a new landing from the living room to the garden.
The east-west-facing house is bioclimatic, capturing the morning heat through its wide windows and storing it in the mass of the preserved walls, protected by its new insulated envelope. A wood-burning mass stove replaces the old fossil enrgy boiler, and a dry toilet preserves drinking water.
- Typology
- Maisons privées
- Status
- Construit
- Year of conception
- 2019
- Client
- Privé
