Projects

Design of a private
house

Models and draws research

Pictures of the final model

Mrs and Mr Lenain, wanted to build a house on their own. This project has been designed with a big implication from their side. It was also, the first time I was in the situation of a real project.

For the first step, we worked with models. Five different spaces were shown to them. They included, what they were showing, what they were saying, and what I was thinking to understand what they wanted.
That helped a lot in the discussion, about what was finally the space they loved the most. But also what they could actually build or not. The house had to be inspired by Japanese architecture, as easy as possible to build and sustain. It should be a contemplation space, a transition between quotidian and life in the forest.

Saint-Médard-en-Jalles, France

Collage, living as a transition, contemplation

The house has been designed with particular attention in the interior space and the transition with the exterior.

Built in wood, a brick load-bearing wall is in the middle, with the function to capt solar energy during winter to provide heat to the house.

Groundfloor plan

Structural axonometry

Longitudinal section

Transversal section

South elevation

North elevation

View from the livingroom

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