The existing frontal half was kept in its materiality
and tectonic qualities. The rear half was completely
built anew. The imposing fenestration opens the
living spaces to the garden and the south light.
A communal vision shared by the architects and the
landscape architect enabled a unified development
of this garden-house. The residence is no more
enclosed by its built facades but rather by the dark
wood perimeter established by the fence.
Even the exterior swimming pool, becomes part
of the whole and reinforces the link between
interior and exterior. The house is articulated by
the over dimensioned wooden cross that links the
pre-existing and new construction as well as the
entrance hall to the swimming pool at the end of
the garden.
At the crossing point, where lies the real heart
of the residence, a vertical shaft spatially unites
the living spaces of the ground floor with more
intimate ones located on the upper floor.
It is the cross outline that ties materials and color,
that defines each room in relation to the other and
that structures the visual organization into a strong
and dynamic space of living.
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