The car house. Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes
09/08/2020.
[Parigny] France
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metalocus, ANDRÉS ROJAS
In response to a competition held be Renault back in 2016 for new automotive-inspired architecture and design, French-based design studio Marchi Architectes won the contest first place entry.
Sited and completed near the french village of Parigny, the project is conceptually driven by a concern for the space and function occupied by cars in urban spaces.
Called the Renault Symbioz House 33, the architects designed a portable home inspired by Renault's concept car, the Symbioz. The home fully integrates the Symbioz, treating it as a natural extension of the spatial aspects of the interior space.
Sited and completed near the french village of Parigny, the project is conceptually driven by a concern for the space and function occupied by cars in urban spaces.
Called the Renault Symbioz House 33, the architects designed a portable home inspired by Renault's concept car, the Symbioz. The home fully integrates the Symbioz, treating it as a natural extension of the spatial aspects of the interior space.
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renault Symbioz House33 by Marchi Architectes. Photograph by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Marchi Architectes designed the 21-meter-long rectangular structure rises 7 meters in height. Utilizing three primary materials: steel, glass, and wood, the home maintains a minimalist quality that accentuates texture and transparency.
The lower main level holds all of the living spaces including the living and kitchen areas. The upper-level holds the bedroom and bathroom. However, the dwelling's defining feature is its mobile room, which is Renault's Symbioz concept car. The vehicle can park on a movable platform that enables it to move through the architecture's two levels. Open the car's doors, and you have yourself an extra room.
The lower main level holds all of the living spaces including the living and kitchen areas. The upper-level holds the bedroom and bathroom. However, the dwelling's defining feature is its mobile room, which is Renault's Symbioz concept car. The vehicle can park on a movable platform that enables it to move through the architecture's two levels. Open the car's doors, and you have yourself an extra room.
Project description by Marchi Architectes
Concerning a reflection about the space and function occupied by cars in urban spaces nowadays, Marchi Architects (Renault’s 2016 competition winners) designed a portable house in order to give a new meaning for cars, which became fully-integrated in a house.For that, the home and the concept-car Symbioz were conceived with similar aspects concerning function and aesthetics so as to form a single unit.
With 21 meters of long, 6 meters of large and 7 meters of high, the house has a metallic structure, wooden cladding, large glass surfaces and an open-plan layout. Traditional living spaces take room inside (living-room and kitchen in the ground-floor; bedroom and bathroom in the first floor).Concerning the connectivity matter between both devices, the concept-car gains a new meaning when turning into an extra/mobile room for the house which can integrate it in different ways such as: an extra room outside, the living-room’s expansion, a quiet room isolated from the noise or as a mobile living-room placed in the rooftop.
“Patrick and Paula are preparing dinner with some friends in the ground floor. Carol, their teenage daughter is listening to loud music with her friends in the bedroom on the 1st floor. Her little sister Carlotta went to the car on the rooftop to watch Harry Potter 5 with her friends while the snow falls down outside.”
The car integration inside the house brings different space qualities into it and consequently into spaces occupied by cars around the world, changing their current character.The possibility of the H33’s living unit vertical repetition in a denser context could make it possible for other car occupied spaces to be released. The use of cars would go from 25% (present percentage) to 100%.
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Architects
Marchi Architectes. Architects.- Nicola and Adelaide Marchi.
Project team
Marchi Architectes Team.- Isotta Lercari, Xiang Li, Marta Guedan, Kyra Ahier.
Team Renault Group.- Laurens Van Den Acker, Stéphane Janin, Tina Kentner, Stéphane Langellier.
Team Renault Group.- Laurens Van Den Acker, Stéphane Janin, Tina Kentner, Stéphane Langellier.
Collaborators
Design.- Renault.
Renault Leader.- Laurens van den Acker, Stephane Janin.
Lighting Design & Ux.- Philips.
Philips Lighting Leader.- Pierre-Yves Panis.
Evp Ingénierie:David Chambolle, Aurore Fautrel, Anna Kulzer
Agence Franck Boutté Consultants.- Franck Boutté, Maxime Grigaut.
Diagonales.- Dominique Perrel.
Philips Lighting Eindhoven Team.- Simon Rycroft, Paul Thursfield, Guillaume Galloy, Pierre-Yves Panis.
Owner
Renault Design Group.
Area
130 m²
Dates
2017
Manufacturers
Featured Car.- Renault Symbioz Electric Car.
Car-Elevator Engineer.- Amg-Féchoz.
Car-Elevator Engineer.- Amg-Féchoz.
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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.
