Une Maison Particulière

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Facts

Year: 2013

Typology: Residential

City: Pyrenees

Country: France

Client: Herman Marres and Rian de Jong

Budget: udisclosed

Floor area: 180 m²

Team:

Lead Designers: Kas Oosterhuis, Ilona Lénárd
Design Team: Ilaria Giardiello, Rick de Lange

Tag That Body: Architecture

Shape That Body: Automotive styling

Une Maison Particulière
A private home with artist studio and integrated swimming pool at the French feet of the Pyrenees mountains. The house is longitudinally stretched parallel to the foothills and perpendicular to the mountain range of the Pyrenees, thus open to the South West to catch the preferred sunlight for the house and the swimming pool. The pool and the terraces are the mediators of the house, both linking and separating the living area and the artist studio. Swimmers in the pool enjoy swimming towards the view on the Pyrenees. The swimming pool has a convertible roof to provide for shade when too hot, to provide for shelter when rainy. The Maison Particulière features a streamlined body plan and carves into nature with the gentle curved contour lines. The bent bow shape is defined by 40m long curved bottom line and, mirrored over the bisector, the top line. The body plan of the house is based on a global symmetry that is negotiated by local a-symmetries, which is a recurrent strategy in ONL's work. The interior lay-out is developed as an open plan with functional 3d objects allowing the client to take alternatives routes inside the house and via the terraces.