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Contemporary House Framing the Cévennes Landscape
Contemporary House Framing the Cévennes Landscape
Alès, France
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Contemporary House Framing the Cévennes Landscape
Alès, France
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2016
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
BUDGET
$100K - 500K
Set on a sloping, wooded site in southern France, this contemporary house was designed around a close relationship with its landscape. Rather than treating the surrounding vegetation as a backdrop, the project uses architecture to frame selected views and bring the changing presence of nature into the interior.
The house is composed of simple volumes combining rendered walls with vertical timber cladding. Their arrangement responds to the topography of the site while reducing the visual impact of the building within its natural setting.
Inside, the main living area develops around a double-height space. Large openings establish direct visual connections with the garden and the distant Cévennes landscape, while carefully positioned horizontal windows create more precise, almost panoramic views.
A suspended net extends into the double-height volume, creating an informal inhabited space between the upper floor and the living room below. More than an additional surface, it allows the height and depth of the house to be experienced differently while maintaining visual connections between the different levels.
Natural light plays a central role throughout the project. The staircase, openings and double-height spaces are arranged to bring daylight deep into the house and to create changing relationships between interior spaces, vegetation and distant views.
The architecture remains deliberately restrained, relying on proportion, light, materiality and the careful framing of the landscape rather than formal effects. Timber, neutral interior surfaces and dark window frames establish a simple material palette that reinforces the connection between the house and its wooded surroundings.
The project explores a way of inhabiting the site in which architecture does not seek to dominate the landscape, but to reveal it through views, light and the sequence of spaces.
The house is composed of simple volumes combining rendered walls with vertical timber cladding. Their arrangement responds to the topography of the site while reducing the visual impact of the building within its natural setting.
Inside, the main living area develops around a double-height space. Large openings establish direct visual connections with the garden and the distant Cévennes landscape, while carefully positioned horizontal windows create more precise, almost panoramic views.
A suspended net extends into the double-height volume, creating an informal inhabited space between the upper floor and the living room below. More than an additional surface, it allows the height and depth of the house to be experienced differently while maintaining visual connections between the different levels.
Natural light plays a central role throughout the project. The staircase, openings and double-height spaces are arranged to bring daylight deep into the house and to create changing relationships between interior spaces, vegetation and distant views.
The architecture remains deliberately restrained, relying on proportion, light, materiality and the careful framing of the landscape rather than formal effects. Timber, neutral interior surfaces and dark window frames establish a simple material palette that reinforces the connection between the house and its wooded surroundings.
The project explores a way of inhabiting the site in which architecture does not seek to dominate the landscape, but to reveal it through views, light and the sequence of spaces.
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