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Bordeaux, France
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Effet de serre
Bordeaux, France
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2018
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$100K - 500K
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An urban greenhouse, a wooden structure clad in sheet metal and fabric, takes place in the heart of the stone city of Bordeaux, housing a pond, a garden and a parking lot. A project based on bio-dynamic architecture.
IN THE HEART OF BORDEAUX'S STONE HERITAGE.
Perfectly aligned with Bordeaux's bourgeois houses, a small house has stepped back and set its facade back from the street, in a specific alignment, to better face its rear garden. At the front, a long wall encloses a small outdoor courtyard, which houses the garage and links the city's public space to the interior of the house. Today, this enclosure wall, with its random silhouette cut by a white PVC garage door and a rusty steel gate, displays a disparity of materials that sets it apart from the classical alignment of facades and the horizontal order of the various modenatures on the street.
WHAT ABOUT A URBAN RESIDUAL SPACE ?
The clients wished to make use of this space in front of their house, and complete the back garden with a tropical front garden and swimming pool. The space is imagined as a greenhouse, allowing the development of a planted area protected from extreme cold and bad weather, associated with a terrace and a garage for cars and bicycles.
A BREATH OF FRESH AIR.
The volume, made up of broken lines and triangular caps, cuts an edgy façade that reveals the structure of the new volume. A sinusoidal steel plate extends, with its waves, the parallel lines of the classical facades, expressing the geometry of the framework. The courtyard entrance and the garage door are hidden behind the steel plate, only distinguished by an almost invisible peripheral hollow joint. This steel plate is inspired by the surrounding colors, dominated by the shade of Bordeaux stone, and is covered in a warm, subtle iridescent stone shade which vibrates according to the light of the day. Slightly perforated, this new façade covers the new space’s wooden structure while letting light and silhouettes of the city into the garden, like a mashrabiya.
MAGIC LANTERN.
For the roof, the laminated wood structure links the new street facade and the stone facade of the house. The framework is clad in a milky-white translucent fabric. The sharp geometric shapes allow water to drain away and the greenhouse to ventilate properly.
A GARDEN, A POND AND A GARAGE.
Inside the greenhouse, a mineral terrace runs alongside a cast-in-place swimming pool and provides access to the house. The facade has been cleaned, and all the joinery has been replaced with simplified aluminum frames to gain luminosity. The garage is designed as a rock that is an integral part of this micro landscape. Designed in wood and clad in plywood panels, it follows the geometric pattern of the roof.
BIO DYNAMICS.
The new tropical garden is resolutely contemporary in its design and form. By reusing an interstitial space, it extends the city’s acupuncture work to reinvest abandoned micro-spaces and highlight Bordeaux's heritage. By creating a micro-garden within a mineral space, studio elua® reinvents street edges, continues a now necessary work of greening city centers, and contributes to the enhancement of the existing.
IN THE HEART OF BORDEAUX'S STONE HERITAGE.
Perfectly aligned with Bordeaux's bourgeois houses, a small house has stepped back and set its facade back from the street, in a specific alignment, to better face its rear garden. At the front, a long wall encloses a small outdoor courtyard, which houses the garage and links the city's public space to the interior of the house. Today, this enclosure wall, with its random silhouette cut by a white PVC garage door and a rusty steel gate, displays a disparity of materials that sets it apart from the classical alignment of facades and the horizontal order of the various modenatures on the street.
WHAT ABOUT A URBAN RESIDUAL SPACE ?
The clients wished to make use of this space in front of their house, and complete the back garden with a tropical front garden and swimming pool. The space is imagined as a greenhouse, allowing the development of a planted area protected from extreme cold and bad weather, associated with a terrace and a garage for cars and bicycles.
A BREATH OF FRESH AIR.
The volume, made up of broken lines and triangular caps, cuts an edgy façade that reveals the structure of the new volume. A sinusoidal steel plate extends, with its waves, the parallel lines of the classical facades, expressing the geometry of the framework. The courtyard entrance and the garage door are hidden behind the steel plate, only distinguished by an almost invisible peripheral hollow joint. This steel plate is inspired by the surrounding colors, dominated by the shade of Bordeaux stone, and is covered in a warm, subtle iridescent stone shade which vibrates according to the light of the day. Slightly perforated, this new façade covers the new space’s wooden structure while letting light and silhouettes of the city into the garden, like a mashrabiya.
MAGIC LANTERN.
For the roof, the laminated wood structure links the new street facade and the stone facade of the house. The framework is clad in a milky-white translucent fabric. The sharp geometric shapes allow water to drain away and the greenhouse to ventilate properly.
A GARDEN, A POND AND A GARAGE.
Inside the greenhouse, a mineral terrace runs alongside a cast-in-place swimming pool and provides access to the house. The facade has been cleaned, and all the joinery has been replaced with simplified aluminum frames to gain luminosity. The garage is designed as a rock that is an integral part of this micro landscape. Designed in wood and clad in plywood panels, it follows the geometric pattern of the roof.
BIO DYNAMICS.
The new tropical garden is resolutely contemporary in its design and form. By reusing an interstitial space, it extends the city’s acupuncture work to reinvest abandoned micro-spaces and highlight Bordeaux's heritage. By creating a micro-garden within a mineral space, studio elua® reinvents street edges, continues a now necessary work of greening city centers, and contributes to the enhancement of the existing.
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