Martin Migeon Structure revives ‘Home Close to Bordeaux’
Martin Migeon Structure transforms an current barn positioned in a small hamlet in Charentes-Maritimes, France, into a vacation home overseeing the Gironde estuary. The renovation undertaking is conceived as a sequence of differentiated volumes every with its personal orientation and distinct traits.
The primary gesture is to suggest an extension extensively open onto the estuary. The pre-existing buildings had been initially organized round a shared courtyard with the neighbors’ patios to fulfill the wants of agriculture and animal rearing, thus ignoring the view. The extension hosts the primary collective areas for the household, the kitchen, residing and eating space, and wooden range, and provides entry to a big coated terrace.
The second gesture is eradicating a roof between two current volumes to form a patio. The brand new out of doors house, immediately linked to the terrace of the extension, is well-protected from the wind permitting for an alternate ambiance and use. These two operations end in a undertaking fabricated from juxtapositions of volumes, circulation, usages, and supplies. Uncovered concrete frames are poured on-site to kind massive openings, in addition to to strengthen the partitions.
all photos by Gion von Albertini
notions of previous and new interaction in a collage of uncooked supplies
The brand new extension develops its materials character by way of a juxtaposition of three parts: a largely closed timber facade on the road facet, an uncovered concrete portico with three posts and a beam, and a monumental colonnade made of 5 spherical polished concrete columns, on which stands the timber roof construction that defines the form of the quantity. By the undertaking of ‘Home Close to Bordeaux’, the design staff initiates a dialogue between previous and new, producing curious collages of uncooked supplies, volumes, roofs, and geometries. A number of openings permit for out of doors and indoor areas to interlace by way of a wide range of routes to make use of daily. Within the winter, the wooden range burns quietly and one can unwind observing the water within the distance. In the summertime, all home windows stay open, and contemporary air circulates fluidly all through, transferring round previous stones and new parts, between the shelter and the panorama.
the renovation proposes an extension extensively open onto the estuary
the brand new out of doors house, immediately linked to the terrace of the extension, is well-protected from the wind
the coated patio types an open residing house permitting for different ambiance and use
