In a singular landscape, in the middle of a plain surrounded by forest massifs, four former farm buildings take place around a yard near a pond. The site lends itself so majestically to the pondering over the landscape and over the wildlife. Our intervention aims to highlight the local patrimony and respect it by the architectural creation.

© Sophie Carles

Architects: WAW Achitectes

Location: 37340 Ambillou, France

Architect In Charge: Stanislas Cheuvreux, Arnaud Coutine, Bérenger Marinot

Area: 712.0 m2

Project Year: 2013

Photographs: Sophie Carles

© Sophie Carles

Site Plan
From the architect. In a singular landscape, in the middle of a plain surrounded by forest massifs, four former farm buildings take place around a yard near a pond. The site lends itself so majestically to the pondering over the landscape and over the wildlife. Our intervention aims to highlight the local patrimony and respect it by the architectural creation.

© Sophie Carles

The main building, the only living building before de reconversion, is entirely cured to adapt itself to the modern constructive exigencies but also to find a volumetry that allows the development of the existent attic. The extension, in a wood frame, joins the continuity of the volumetry of the former bui...