Chestnuts House by Marchi Architectes
05/11/2015.
[Auvergne] France
metalocus, CLAUDIA CENDOYA
metalocus, CLAUDIA CENDOYA
Chestnuts House is located in a exceptional natural environment in the countryside of Auvergne, in France. The building is designed in harmony with the natural and architectural surrounding elements, adapting its appearance to existing rural buildings.
Aerial view. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes. Photography © Fernando Guerra.
Aerial view. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes. Photography © Fernando Guerra.
Aerial view. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes. Photography © Fernando Guerra.
Exterior. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes. Photography © Fernando Guerra.
Exterior. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes. Photography © Fernando Guerra.
Exterior. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes. Photography © Fernando Guerra.
Exterior. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes. Photography © Fernando Guerra.
Exterior. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes. Photography © Fernando Guerra.
Exterior. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes. Photography © Fernando Guerra.
Exterior. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes. Photography © Fernando Guerra.
Exterior. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes. Photography © Fernando Guerra.
Interior. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes. Photography © Fernando Guerra.
Interior. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes. Photography © Fernando Guerra.
Interior. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes. Photography © Fernando Guerra.
Interior. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes. Photography © Fernando Guerra.
Interior. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes. Photography © Fernando Guerra.
Interior. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes. Photography © Fernando Guerra.
Interior/Exterior. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes. Photography © Fernando Guerra.
Deck detail. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes. Photography © Fernando Guerra.
Floor plan. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes.
Roof plan. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes.
Elevation. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes.
Elevation. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes.
Elevation. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes.
Section. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes.
Constructive section. Chestnuts house by Marchi Architectes.
Marchi Architectes practice proposes an approach to residential design where the new construction adapts its properties and morphology to the surrounding elements. The relationship between the interior and exterior spaces is resolved with large openings coverded with glass in the facade, which dilute the spatial indoor/outdoor dichotomy. Skylights open the metallic deck, contributing to the natural indoor lighting and creating new dialogues of light and shadow in the interior of the house.
The interior layout is proposed as a fluid and continuous space which contains the daily life activities. The pitched roof extends to an outer strip adjacent to the facade, which creates a transition between the outer environment and inner domestic area.
Description of the project by Marchi Architectes
The new house is set in order to maintain the volumetric balance between the existing buildings on the west side of the courtyard: façade proportions, height and materials are translated from the facing building. New house is a contemporary architecture shaped from traditional habitat. The pitched metallic roof is asymmetrically designed in order to dialogue with the courtyard on the west and to recall the demolished building on east side.
Interiors volumes’ composition was developed as independents elements detached each other’s with “box in the box” concept. Different heights permitted to create space’s complexity.
Nord and south elevations are inclined for create a relation between existing buildings. Ten skylights make zenithal light enter in principal volume. All the trees were conserved.
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Architects
Design team
Marcello Orlandini, Marta Guedan and Kristin Lazarova.
Collaborators
Augusto Alves Sarl, François Gros Ingenierie, Jean-Luc Valety Sarl, Frederique Biosset and Palluet Freres.
Area
350sqm.
Dates
2014.
Photography
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.
