Viking Seaside Summer House / FREAKS Architecture

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Fermanville, France
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  12
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2017
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Jules Couartou
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Technal, O'Metall, Valdimar Harðarson
Viking Seaside Summer House / FREAKS Architecture - Chair
© Jules Couartou

Text description provided by the architects. The project is located on the west coast of France, in the Cotentin region, where came waves of vikings from the 9th century.

Viking Seaside Summer House / FREAKS Architecture - Facade
© Jules Couartou

FREAKS has been commissioned to refurbish a preexisting concrete fishing shack built in the 50's on a rock, on the beach, facing the sea. Its dimensions and ratio are exactly the same as Henry David Thoreau's log cabin in Walden, 3 meters per 4, 12m2.

Because of the very strict French coastal construction regulations, the project couldn't change either the size nor the shape of the shack, but major works have been done to change the roofing and exterior insulation by using a light champagne-colored galvanized metal cladding and to install two large sliding windows allowing to open the house towards the horizon.

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The interior architecture is very minimal and simple and consists in a yellow-jointed- white-tilled core in which the toilets and a glazed showerezzanine hosts a double bed. The lounge area hosts a couch and a table for 8 person by using the folding arm chairs "Soley" designed by Icelandic architect Valdimar Hadarson. A very are gathered. The kitchen is open towards the main room while a half m large outdoor terrace expands the living space to the stunning seaside pink granite landscape.

Viking Seaside Summer House / FREAKS Architecture - Table
© Jules Couartou

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Cite: "Viking Seaside Summer House / FREAKS Architecture" 20 Jun 2017. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/873871/viking-seaside-summer-house-freaks-architecture> ISSN 0719-8884

© Jules Couartou

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