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Architects: Java Architecture
- Area: 100 m²
- Year: 2018
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Photographs:CaroLine Dethier
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Manufacturers: Batipin, Bricodepot, Fourcade Chartpente, Lenouy, Pyrennees Bois
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Text description provided by the architects. This family home define a way of life. The clients, a young couple living in Paris first contacted JAVA to build a vacation house.
During the design process was born their first child, and this birth was followed by a shift in their life aims. The weekend house has to transform into a family home in tune with their new lifestyle, mainly focused on surfing and outdoor living.
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According to these new goals, the house has to be built with a reduced budget and within a year. The main requirements were then budget and time.
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On this basis JAVA designed a project reducing at the maximum the construction time and the ground footprint of the house.
![Une maison pour surfer / Java Architecture - Deck](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5bc2/2be2/f197/cc17/1200/00db/medium_jpg/HOSSEGOR_JAVA_ARCHITECTURE_CAROLINE_DETHIER_74.jpg?1539451864)
Located on a hilly forest ground, the construction process and later the house had to have a minimum impact on the surroundings.
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Therefore it was decided to build the house with prefabricated modules and on the top of the hill, where none of the big trees had to be cut down.
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The canopy can therefore be admired from the ground floor of the house.
Echoing the vertical rhythm of the pine timbers, the house is covered by a dark wood cladding, transforming gradually the dense volume of the house into an open porch protected from rain and wind by a corrugated polycarbonate cladding.
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This porch, reminiscent of the typical airail of the Landes farmhouse opens the living space and the family life towards the outdoors.
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First designed as a budget-saving element, the porch is now the main space of the home, where the family like to gather.
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