French studio Olivia Fauvelle Structure has used glazed tiles and concrete lintels to rework the outbuilding and courtyard of a home within the south of France.
The outbuilding has been refurbished and prolonged to bodily join it to Maison Jericho, the Twentieth-century stone home to which it belongs in Marseille.
Olivia Fauvelle Structure’s purpose was to create a “seamless transition” by the backyard of the house and higher join the 2 buildings alongside the lengthy, slim plot.
The studio’s refurbishment of Maison Jericho’s outhouse concerned the creation of a residing house and bed room. A brand new hyperlink hall joins these rooms to the primary residence.
Within the backyard, a tiled terrace and pool act as transitional areas between the buildings.
“The particularity of this venture was to take care of two pre-existing figures, each already carrying an especially robust aesthetic and emotional presence,” defined studio director Olivia Fauvelle.
“[First], though deserted: an outside house with excessive potential, and [second] a vernacular building,” Fauvelle continued.
New exterior partitions have been clad in deep-green wall tiles to instantly replicate the materiality of the backyard, whereas the prevailing stone partitions and timber trusses of the outhouse have been mixed with new concrete lintels.
“The glazed tiled partitions replicate the altering hues of seasons, sky and water,” stated Fauvelle.
Inside Maison Jericho’s outbuilding, whitewashed stone partitions kind a backdrop to new image home windows and a window seat that create a connection to the outside.
A curved white curtain is used as a theatrical system to shut off views from the openings overlooking the backyard and to supply a muted high quality to the house.
The strategy to Maison Jericho’s backyard and out of doors areas was, partially, knowledgeable by the Brazilian panorama designs of architect Lina Bo Bardi.
The panorama design goals to supply significant interplay and alternate with the pure qualities of the location, Fauvelle defined.
“The exterior areas are an integral a part of the venture,” stated Fauvelle. “[They] reveal the depth of the plot in successive layers.”
Different residential tasks not too long ago featured on Dezeen the place out of doors areas play a key position embody a Victorian maisonette in London overlooking a lush walled backyard by Nimtim Architects and a “tiny palazzo” within the backyard of a Porto residence by Fala Atelier.
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