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By : Studio Jean Verville architectes
GRANDS PRIX DU DESIGN – 14th edition
Discipline : Architecture
Categories : Special Award / Art Integration in Architecture : Gold Certification
Categories : Residential Building / Single-Family Home : Silver Certification
Architect Jean Verville imagines a volumetric reconfiguration adapted to the universe of artistic creation, and to the personalities and needs of two artists and their little son. Aiming at a cohabitation of domestic and professional activities, a permeable family life, and a distribution providing a level of individual privacy, the project takes advantage of decompartmentalization to metamorphose the spatial typology and consolidate the feeling of unification in its vertical deployment. Minimizing alterations to the existing building by selective subtraction of floor areas, the core of the three-story house is freed up to integrate a succession of ten multi-purpose and multi-functional platforms. These ten scenic breaks - sometimes becoming a small scene, sometimes a seat - form a new system of organization with fluid boundaries that minimize the need for furniture and generate visual porosity, while meeting the requirements of functional adaptability. Crowned by an imposing skylight, a 12-meter-high metal structure, with perforated steel surfaces and walls, juxtaposes this progression to consolidate structural integrity and maximizes the supply of natural light. Volumes concealing functions abolish the original hierarchy in dynamic segmentation. Marked by graphic lines, the monochromy of greige tones unifies the whole into a single monolithic entity.
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