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.
