Black Wood House by Marchi Architectes

Marchi Architectes designed this project built in black wood to extend an older house already existing in the plot. The extensión houses the common spaces of the house. Half hidden below the street level, it offers great views of the natural surroundings from the open living spaces.

Memory of project by Marchi Architectes

The client wanted to move the living spaces to a more open and transparent spaces, in order to free some spaces in the old house.

A unique volume is set up, arranging kitchen, living and dining room. From the interior, wide views are offered on the garden and on landscape.

The extension is connected to the existing house as a structurally light volume, as not to overload the foundations.

The project is minimal: the volume is integrated in the surrounding, partially recessed in the topography of the ground as to stands lower than the street level.

The dark timber cladding plays with light and shadows so that the extension disappears in the shade of the forest around.

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Site plan. Image © courtesy of Marchi Architectes.

Main floor plan. Image © courtesy of Marchi Architectes.

Roof floor plan. Image © courtesy of Marchi Architectes.

Long section. Image © courtesy of Marchi Architectes.

Elevation. Image © courtesy of Marchi Architectes.

Cross section. Image © courtesy of Marchi Architectes.

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Architects

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Marchi Architectes.

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Design team

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Olivia Massimi, Marcello Orlandini.

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Collaborators

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Consultants.- Baldeschi, SBH, Valentin, Vauchel-Louvel.

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Area

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80 sqm.

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Dates

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Date of design.- 2010-2013.
Date of completion.- 2013.

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Budget

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€160,000.

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Location

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Normandie, Capelle-les-Grands, France.

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Photography

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Fernando Guerra | FG+SG.

ADÉLAÏDE MARCHI AND NICOLA MARCHI MARCHI ARCHITECTES

Marchi Architectes, one of the prizewinners of Les Nouveaux albums des jeunes architectes et des paysagistes (NAJAP) of 2013, is sensitive to the spirit of a place, conceives of architecture as a reconciliation with nature.

Adélaïde and Nicola draw on the richness of their travels and encounters as well as the reality of the profession as the framework for the act of construction. They are uniquely influenced by their Erasmus earned at the Porto School of Architecture (Portugal) in 1996 and instruction by Alvaro Siza, Pritzker 1992.

Adélaïde Marchi (born in 1973, graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris la Seine) and Nicola Marchi (born in 1968, graduate of the Milan Polytechnic) founded Marchi Architectes in 2004.