Logement, Vouvry

The building acts as a winegrower's gatehouse. The simple volumetry attests to the desire to be anchored in this rural heritage. The appearance of the mineral materiality of the base is borrowed from that of the retaining walls of the place, cased in irregular textured wooden formwork. The facade of the wooden volume expresses a piano nobile on the ground floor overlooked by the level including the “night” functions. Each level benefits from a type of opening responding to the desired relationship with the outside world. The thin metal roof covers the whole with a textured and technical element.
Secondly, the excavation of the parking lot provides a space to occupy; a second housing unit is taking shape. Drilling openings in the wall in place requires large-scale core drilling. This second project follows a logic of hollowing out the full.