The TETRIS

83, Rue Gaston Baratte, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France

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The TETRIS

83, Rue Gaston Baratte, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France

Firm

Type

Residential › Private House

YEAR

2010

This project reflects the desire of the client to honor an architect-designed
house that has been hidden on the garden side by an extension of questionable
quality, in giving it a third phase expansion to accommodate the two sleeping
rooms of his children.

Result of technical constraints (desire for a minimal footprint in favor of a generous
garden) and program (wish for a room on the ground floor in preparation for old
age and a private outdoor space), this extension project moved toward a building
in the ground floor and an elevation of the existing buildings.

It takes the shape of a volume "Tetris", formal outcome of the
constraints of templates and drop imposed by the Municipality regulations. It hosts
a ground floor room and a bedroom upstairs, all connected by volume, comprising
areas of the bathrooms, dressing rooms and vertical circulation.

The project was completed in timber frame and its facade covered in "Eternit
pictura". This construction is underway labeling BBC (a French ecological
label). The site was organized such as not to alter the topography and a special
attention was paid to the preservation of all the existing trees on the site.