Puzzle House / Mabire Reich
To extend a house, is to add an extra layer in an existing building, which sometimes allows to see the previous ones. The house we had to extend, close to the Procé park in Nantes, is a clear example of this layering process, picture of the time passing through the changing needs of the previous owners.
© Guillaume Satre
Architects: Mabire Reich
Location: Nantes, France
Partner Architect: Fanny Robin
Area: 128.0 m2
Project Year: 2018
Photographs: Guillaume Satre
Structure Engineers: EVEN
© Guillaume Satre
Text description provided by the architects. To extend a house, is to add an extra layer in an existing building, which sometimes allows to see the previous ones. The house we had to extend, close to the Procé park in Nantes, is a clear example of this layering process, picture of the time passing through the changing needs of the previous owners.
© Guillaume Satre
At first a single floor one, this house was firstly extended aside and eventually partly raised up, questioning its ability to go under a third extension phase. Instead of erasing this history, we completed the puzzle by raising up the initial building in order to form a new volume coherent with the first extension.
© Guillaume Satre
We painted the facade with the aim of harmonizing this patchwork, nevertheless still readable by a careful observer. Then we add a wood mesh, giving a...
© Guillaume Satre
Architects: Mabire Reich
Location: Nantes, France
Partner Architect: Fanny Robin
Area: 128.0 m2
Project Year: 2018
Photographs: Guillaume Satre
Structure Engineers: EVEN
© Guillaume Satre
Text description provided by the architects. To extend a house, is to add an extra layer in an existing building, which sometimes allows to see the previous ones. The house we had to extend, close to the Procé park in Nantes, is a clear example of this layering process, picture of the time passing through the changing needs of the previous owners.
© Guillaume Satre
At first a single floor one, this house was firstly extended aside and eventually partly raised up, questioning its ability to go under a third extension phase. Instead of erasing this history, we completed the puzzle by raising up the initial building in order to form a new volume coherent with the first extension.
© Guillaume Satre
We painted the facade with the aim of harmonizing this patchwork, nevertheless still readable by a careful observer. Then we add a wood mesh, giving a...
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