Located a short walk from a contemporary residence designed by Cimaise in 2011, this agricultural building extends the owners’ living project into the landscape, anchoring it in a simple volume set at the edge of the forest. It reprises the rigor and material palette of the neighboring house while asserting its own presence through the composition of a timber volume housing the garage and a long glazed greenhouse facing the view, its base marked by a corten steel planter.
The timber volume concentrates the garage and more technical functions, while the greenhouse stretches along the façade like a transparent gallery where the garden continues indoors. A slender steel structure, glass and wood cladding form a light ensemble that converses with the surrounding nature and captures changing light throughout the seasons.
Designed to accommodate small-scale agricultural and artisanal activities, the building gathers production, processing and hosting under one roof. It is a place for growing, cooking and bottling, but also for workshops, shared dinners and informal gatherings centered on the products of the site.
Inside, a large open space with straightforward finishes – continuous concrete slab and wood panel walls – provides a robust yet warm setting for long tables, a sitting area and shelves filled with preserves and homemade preparations. A wood stove and woven pendant lights add a domestic layer to this working environment, intentionally blurring the line between farm, workshop and house. Generous glazed surfaces frame successive views of the land, the residence and the woods, making the agricultural building at once a productive backyard, a common room and a landscape pavilion where daily life, cultivation and conviviality are closely intertwined.