HOUSE IN OTTIGNIES – 2/4
On the ground floor, the living room is first isolated from the street by doubling up on the front window frames and using translucent glazing. The entrance space, fitted out in the former garage, creates an access sequence passing through a wooden alcove and then this preparation area, designed as a covered extension of the sidewalk.
Then, the rear annexes were partially demolished, the kitchen was moved into the former entrance hall, and a new bay opens now the living room onto the garden. The load-bearing walls are replaced by a central column, opening up the space while maintaining its composition of two adjoining rooms with its ceiling mouldings.
Finally, a large terrace has been laid out and treated as an outdoor room. Connected to the garden by a monumental staircase, it is framed by a tree and the transformed ruins of the annexes, offering visual privacy from neighbours, like all the other spaces in the project.
For the attic space, the strategy was to open up the north-facing slope of the roof as much as possible to flood the space with diffused light, and to design the furniture in a unified manner and in connection with the view towards the sky.
