Halfway between tower and viewpoint, for this house-whorkshop building in Tour Saint-Ange’s park, France, Odile Decq conceived a black, monolithic architecture that grows to find all visions of the valley.

The project by paris-based Studio Odile Decq is based on the lower side of the plateau at Tour-Ange’s park in Grenoble, France. Its distinctively color emerges between the treetops and contrasting against its traditional neighbors, the structure responds to its steep and narrow topography, where the main aim was to successfully frame optimum views of the valley.

Descripction of the project by Studio Odile Decq

The placement of the Saint-Ange Residency, on the lower side of the plateau of Tour Saint-Ange’s park, beyond the vegetable garden, under the trees and on the slope leading toward the Grenoble’s golf course - was definitively a challenge.

The site is beautiful for its unobstructed view on Grenoble’s valley, but difficult for its hard and narrow slope.

This is why, when discovering the site, and despite all the difficulties, creating a view overlooking the entire valley became the dominant idea. A belvedere became the evident solution: to see as much of the valley as pos- sible by going above the trees, but without ever having a reverse view in order to protect the intimacy of the Tour Saint-Ange and its park.

The studio was therefore thought of as a kind of tower on 3 different levels that twist to reach the view beyond the valley.

This is monolithic architecture, a silent piece of art, made entirely from wood, with a natural finish on the inside and a black asphalt finish on the outside. During the daytime, multiple openings on the facade allow the light to pour into the living rooms, the studio and the two levels above - from 3 different directions (except from the north side facing the Tour Saint-Ange).

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Structure.- Batiserf. Fluids.- Axess. Urbanist.- Jocelyne Icart. Structure.- Bois Conseil.
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Colette Tornier.
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General contractor.- Sema. Structural work.- Soraetec. Carpentry.- Mr Joly Bois. Electricity.- Edmi. Plumbing.- Edmi.
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185 m².
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Completed.- 2015.
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Seyssins-Grenoble, France.
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Roland Halbe.
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Odile Decq set up her own office just after graduating at La Villette in 1978 while studying at Sciences Politiques Paris where she completed a post-graduate diploma in Urban Planning in 1979. International renown was not long in coming, as early as 1990 actually, with her first major commission: the Banque Populaire de l’Ouest in Rennes.

Numerous prizes and publications distinguished her work. By questioning the commission, the use, the matter, the body, the technique, the taste, the architecture of ‘Odile Decq Benoît Cornette” offers a paradoxical look, both tender and severe in today’s world. They were awarded a Golden Lion in Venice in 1996.

Alone since 1998, Odile Decq has been faithful to her fighting attitude while diversifying and radicalizing her research. She just completed the MACRO (Museum for Contemporary Art in Rome) in 2010 and the restaurant in Opera Garnier in Paris in 2011. In 2012, The FRAC (Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain) in Rennes and the GL Events headquarter in Lyon will be completed. In 2007, Odile Decq was elected General Director of the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris. Since that, she shares her time between organizing the school in developing it to an international level.

https://www.odiledecq.com

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Published on: August 24, 2015
Cite: "Black on green. Saint-Ange Residency by Studio Odile Decq" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/black-green-saint-ange-residency-studio-odile-decq> ISSN 1139-6415
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