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Sport d'hiver
Bègles, France
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Sport d'hiver
Bègles, France
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2017
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$100K - 500K
Designing the vertical roof extension of a Bordeaux échoppe as a new layer. Like a mountain, the stone of the house dreams of scale, geology, and mineral strata.
The program calls for an additional large bedroom, followed by a walk-in closet and a bathroom.
The studio proposes an extension over half of the roof, cut to the right of the front door in order to contain the program within the private, night-time area of the house. The extension becomes the mineral continuation of the échoppe, a stone outgrowth, like a new tectonic movement of the geological plates that compose it. This new layer defines a fresh elevation, evoking the childlike silhouette of a small mountain while also referencing, through its metal roof profile, industrial sheds as an allusion to the neighborhood’s urban gateway context, shaped by workshops, industrial warehouses, and uniform metal volumes.
The form is extruded across the full width of the house in a deliberately simple way, generating an interior volume that is rugged and unexpected. The interior space is organised around a central block gathering all storage, the dressing room, toilets, the main gutter, and the primary structural elements of the roof frame.
Dreamlike and contextual, this extension marks a new phase in the life of the échoppe, referring to the city as a layered construction, where each stratum tells a moment in the lives of its inhabitants, a chapter in the history of building, and carries an evolving imaginary to be completed over time.
The program calls for an additional large bedroom, followed by a walk-in closet and a bathroom.
The studio proposes an extension over half of the roof, cut to the right of the front door in order to contain the program within the private, night-time area of the house. The extension becomes the mineral continuation of the échoppe, a stone outgrowth, like a new tectonic movement of the geological plates that compose it. This new layer defines a fresh elevation, evoking the childlike silhouette of a small mountain while also referencing, through its metal roof profile, industrial sheds as an allusion to the neighborhood’s urban gateway context, shaped by workshops, industrial warehouses, and uniform metal volumes.
The form is extruded across the full width of the house in a deliberately simple way, generating an interior volume that is rugged and unexpected. The interior space is organised around a central block gathering all storage, the dressing room, toilets, the main gutter, and the primary structural elements of the roof frame.
Dreamlike and contextual, this extension marks a new phase in the life of the échoppe, referring to the city as a layered construction, where each stratum tells a moment in the lives of its inhabitants, a chapter in the history of building, and carries an evolving imaginary to be completed over time.
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