Benoit&Roselyne / DIXNEUFCENTQUATREVINGTSIX
This typical house of the Gard, wedged in between vegetation and hillside, stands on a lot that has been separated into three levels of terraces held in place by dry stone retaining
© Florian Kleinefenn
Architects: DIXNEUFCENTQUATREVINGTSIX
Location: Nimes, France
Architect In Charge: Mathilde Gaudemet & Arthur Ozenne
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Florian Kleinefenn, Courtesy of DIXNEUFCENTQUATREVINGTSIX
© Florian Kleinefenn
Roof Plan
From the architect. This typical house of the Gard, wedged in between vegetation and hillside, stands on a lot that has been separated into three levels of terraces held in place by dry stone retaining
© Florian Kleinefenn
The extension added to this house, which until recently only served as second home, had to enable Benoît and Roselyne to host their children, grandchildren and friends.A monolithic and sculptural concrete volume rises from this landscape of greenery and limestone, resonating with the genie of this place, a former quarry.
Axonometric View
This volume has been designed to allow the interplay of light and shadow to reveal its facetted form and to assert its presence and contemporary look without negating its kinship with the house it adjoins.Like the existing farmhouse, the extension is laid out in two main, contiguous structures; the first, in the form of a square, of approximately 5 meters by 6 meters...
© Florian Kleinefenn
Architects: DIXNEUFCENTQUATREVINGTSIX
Location: Nimes, France
Architect In Charge: Mathilde Gaudemet & Arthur Ozenne
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Florian Kleinefenn, Courtesy of DIXNEUFCENTQUATREVINGTSIX
© Florian Kleinefenn
Roof Plan
From the architect. This typical house of the Gard, wedged in between vegetation and hillside, stands on a lot that has been separated into three levels of terraces held in place by dry stone retaining
© Florian Kleinefenn
The extension added to this house, which until recently only served as second home, had to enable Benoît and Roselyne to host their children, grandchildren and friends.A monolithic and sculptural concrete volume rises from this landscape of greenery and limestone, resonating with the genie of this place, a former quarry.
Axonometric View
This volume has been designed to allow the interplay of light and shadow to reveal its facetted form and to assert its presence and contemporary look without negating its kinship with the house it adjoins.Like the existing farmhouse, the extension is laid out in two main, contiguous structures; the first, in the form of a square, of approximately 5 meters by 6 meters...
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