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Architects: Lacroix Chessex
- Area: 150 m²
- Year: 2011
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Text description provided by the architects. Built for a traditional client the contemporary architecture tries to exceed a Swiss minimalism and abstraction.
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The project is presented as a set of three concrete tables stacked in different ways.
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The first floor of the home emerges slightly from the cellar. Technical rooms and extra rooms are placed in the basement. The raised ground establishes a special relationship with the garden, expressing a sort of monumentalism in this small building.
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The second floor contains the three bedrooms and the upper floor sees its folded tray to create an inverted roof that ends with an expressive gargoyle; rainwater flows to a small collection pond.
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The structure is an outdoor concrete structure that is insulated from the inside.
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The scheme of the two 6-feet floors base is simple deformation shifts for maximum generosity to interior spaces, creating a more complex structure than it seems.
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