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Maison L
Site: Western France
Project Status: built (1st phase), in progress (2nd phase)
Main Use: Living
Total Floor Area: 600
Structural System: Wood, stonde

The remodeling of an old stone house in western France was to give the house a new order, make it more spacious inside, but at the same time preserve its unique character.
Together with some lower annexes, this 1850 house forms a courtyard which serves as the entrance. To the rear of the house is the garden. The building ensemble is built in locally sourced stone, the main house has timber ceilings. Before the remodeling, the inside was divided into cellular, winding rooms with thin, non-load-bearing walls in contrast to the very thick, solid exterior walls.

All interior walls were removed. After the remodeling, the ground floor consists of only one large, open space. Shelves on the outer walls provide necessary storage space and underline the character of the room. The space is now characterized above all by the symmetry of the entrance door and the four windows either side of the courtyard and garden, as well as the presence of the solid stone exterior walls. Along the existing wooden staircase, a shelving unit protrudes into the room, creating an open zoning.
Upstairs, built-in wardrobes and shelves form a new room structure.

The clients' wish for conservatories either side of the house was further developed into a spatial sequence. The first conservatory acts as a threshold and entrance between the courtyard and the now large, open living space, while the second represents the transition to the open garden. The two conservatories are characterized by a diagonal wooden grid, the structure of which was then adopted to form a pergola framing a "green room" in the garden - a spatial counterpart to the courtyard on the other side of the house.