"To build is to shelter. Raising walls to protect, and put a roof over, make shade." Pierre Lajus.

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Architects: A6A

Location: Royan, France

Lead Architects: A6A

Collaborators: Atelier Archipel, BET Lapasserie, BET Becis, Boudeaud économie

Area: 203.0 m2

Project Year: 2018

Photographs: Agnès Clotis

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"To build is to shelter. Raising walls to protect, and put a roof over, make shade." Pierre Lajus.

© Agnès Clotis

Building a detached house nowadays, and particularly in the Royan region, a territory marked by the arrival of the modern movement during the 1950s, represents an architectural exercise in its own right.
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Axonometric

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The interest is not to bend to an aesthetic or a dogma, but rather to take advantage of this opportunity to better understand its vocabulary and codes. They go well beyond a façade work, and very often push the drawing towards a great intelligence in plan and a strong flexibility in the ways of appropriating it.

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Ground floor plan

The idea is to build a two-speed house. First, a place for the couple, whose activity will be gathered on the ground floor. Then, when the family is complete, the floor and its terrace offer the necessary surfaces to accommodate children and gra...