Floating over the hillside with local wood. House Saint-Julien le Petit by Ciguë
05/03/2022.
[Saint-Julien-le-Petit - Haute-Vienne] France
metalocus, JAVIER ARIAS
metalocus, JAVIER ARIAS
This easy wooden house, designed on stilts resting on a gentle slope was designed by Ciguë, an architecture firm led by Camille Bénard, Julien Franc, Guillem Renard and Alphonse Sarthout.
The house is, in fact, a minimal residence located in Saint-Julien-le-Petit, a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in west-central France. A rural area in which the former agricultural land is being gradually replaced by new forests.
The house is, in fact, a minimal residence located in Saint-Julien-le-Petit, a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in west-central France. A rural area in which the former agricultural land is being gradually replaced by new forests.
House Saint-Julien le Petit by Ciguë. Photograph by Maris Mezulis
House Saint-Julien le Petit by Ciguë. Photograph by Maris Mezulis
House Saint-Julien le Petit by Ciguë. Photograph by Maris Mezulis
House Saint-Julien le Petit by Ciguë. Photograph by Maris Mezulis
House Saint-Julien le Petit by Ciguë. Photograph by Maris Mezulis
House Saint-Julien le Petit by Ciguë. Photograph by Maris Mezulis
House Saint-Julien le Petit by Ciguë. Photograph by Maris Mezulis
House Saint-Julien le Petit by Ciguë. Photograph by Maris Mezulis
House Saint-Julien le Petit by Ciguë. Photograph by Maris Mezulis
House Saint-Julien le Petit by Ciguë. Photograph by Maris Mezulis
House Saint-Julien le Petit by Ciguë. Photograph by Maris Mezulis
House Saint-Julien le Petit by Ciguë. Photograph by Maris Mezulis
House Saint-Julien le Petit by Ciguë. Photograph by Maris Mezulis
House Saint-Julien le Petit by Ciguë. Photograph by Maris Mezulis
House Saint-Julien le Petit by Ciguë. Photograph by Maris Mezulis
House Saint-Julien le Petit by Ciguë. Photograph by ciguë
Axonometric sketch. House Saint-Julien le Petit by Ciguë
Constructive detail sketch. House Saint-Julien le Petit by Ciguë.
House Saint-Julien le Petit by Ciguë. Photograph by ciguë
House Saint-Julien le Petit by Ciguë. Photograph by ciguë
Ciguë scrupulously chooses its position on the ground, its exposure and its height. A place in which, according to the architects, "you live in carefree and unconfined, in direct contact with the landscape, surrounded by bare necessities."
Learning from Jean Prouve, the design renews the archetype of the country house. Looking to the west and floating lightly above its ground, the building grows on removable steel foundations and was mainly made of local wood.
Its square volume was designed with large openings, that flood with light and introduce life to the rhythm of the seasons, according to bioclimatic principles, showing its international references (from Japanese architecture to Californian Case Study Houses).
House Saint-Julien le Petit by Cigüe. Photograph by Maris Mezulis.
Learning from Jean Prouve, the design renews the archetype of the country house. Looking to the west and floating lightly above its ground, the building grows on removable steel foundations and was mainly made of local wood.
Its square volume was designed with large openings, that flood with light and introduce life to the rhythm of the seasons, according to bioclimatic principles, showing its international references (from Japanese architecture to Californian Case Study Houses).
House Saint-Julien le Petit by Cigüe. Photograph by Maris Mezulis.
Project description by Ciguë
This wooden house scrupulously chooses its land, its exposure, its height, and its references (from Japanese architecture to Californian Case Study Houses) to revisit the archetype of the country house. A place in which you live in carefree and unconfined, in direct contact with the landscape, surrounded by bare necessities.
The house is anchored in its context, yet far from the traditional stone houses of this village of Haute Vienne. Mainly made of local wood, installed on removable steel foundations, and benefiting from large window openings, it is flooded with light and lives to the rhythm of the seasons according to bioclimatic principles.
Floating lightly above its field, the house imprints its unique neo-vernacular spirit on the landscape, having chosen wood from the surrounding forests that have gradually replaced the region’s agricultural land.
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Architects
Area
Project area.- 88 sqm.
Dates
2021.
Main materials
Wooden frame structure, thermal insulation in blown cellulose wadding, exterior cladding in black stained larch wood, exterior carpentry in larch wood, roof with two slopes in galvanized corrugated iron, interior floor in calcium sulphate, interior lining in “fermacell” plasterboard, interior fittings in spruce wood.
Location
Saint-Julien-le-Petit, Haute-Vienne, France.
Photography Fotografía
Camille Bénard, Hugo Haas, Guillem Renard, Alphonse Sarthout. Ciguë
Ciguë is an architecture firm founded in 2003 in Montreuil by Camille Bénard, Hugo Haas, Guillem Renard and Alphonse Sarthout. It is currently led by Camille Bénard, Julien Franc Wahlgreen, Guillem Renard and Alphonse Sarthout. It was on the benches of the Paris La Villette school that they met and decided to combine their skills. At first, they mainly created bespoke furniture then, once they graduated in 2008, the four partners launched their architecture agency.
