A cantilevering concrete cover shelters a brand new entrance at this extension to a modernist-style residence in Ardèche, which has been accomplished by French follow Alors Studio.

Positioned in a small village within the south of the French, the home was initially in-built 2007 as a vacation residence and is comprised of three separate areas related by an exterior path.

Trying to unify the house and create a extra “intimate environment”, Paris-based Alors Studio created a brand new entrance and inside hall linking every of the house’s blocks, in addition to extending it with extra bedrooms.

“The present home, manufactured from separate models, develops itself on its size,” co-founder Baptiste Fleury advised Dezeen.

“One of many key factors of our intervention was to recreate a brand new centrality, a coronary heart for this home, that might reconnect these impartial parts.”

“We needed the brand new plan to recreate density for a greater use of the home each day,” he added.

The studio designed a brand new entrance with a cantilevered concrete cover to the west, beneath which a hall connects an present and a brand new bed room block. This creates an axis that leads previous a small seating space into the house’s central block.

The newly created bedrooms are organised round a small patio that appears in direction of the again of the positioning, framing views of an present drystone wall.

Within the central block, the residing, eating and kitchen space overlooks a paved patio partially sheltered by a cover, offering elevated views out throughout the panorama.

“The location on the again of the plot is characterised by the retaining dry stone wall, a robust architectural factor on the area of Ardèche,” defined Fleury.

“We determined to develop the venture alongside this sturdy panorama factor to disclose a previously uncared for nature by the earlier venture.”

On the japanese finish of the positioning, the unique exterior paved route has been maintained, resulting in an extra bed room block that stands separate from the remainder of the house.

The extension mirrors the modernist type and uncovered concrete surfaces of the unique residence, with an look contrasting the realm’s vernacular structure that Alors Studio wished to take care of.

In the primary hall, the concrete surfaces are softened by built-in storage and window benches completed in darkish wooden.

“We determined to make use of the identical uncovered concrete language on the facades, flooring and ceiling, however to suggest a really totally different strategy to the environment it creates,” defined Fleury.

“Whereas the geometry and basic organisation of the prevailing plan generate areas which can be very uncovered to daylight with laborious shadows and views in direction of the horizon, we needed the extension to be extra quiet and intimate.”

“It creates a softened environment, even when the materiality is identical,” he concluded.

Different tasks in France lately featured on Dezeen embrace the wood-shingle-clad Gilbert Raby Therapeutic Workshops by Tolila+Gilliland, and a collection of condo blocks by structure studio CoBe and design company WEEK raised on concrete arches.

The images is by Lorenzo Zandri.