Alcove

Designed on a landlocked plot interwoven within an urban fabric composed of small houses, distinguished residences, and a few collective buildings, this single-family home proposes an approach to site occupation that departs from the usual concepts of either a mineral monolith set at the centre of the parcel or a frontage aligned directly with the street. Agnès Clotis The house occupies a complex layout core, creating four landscaped alcoves, elipse shaped. This layout generates an organic composition embracing the gardens made from unfolding concavities and branching extensions. Conceived as singular entities, each garden—positioned at the four cardinal points—form spatial continuities with the interior volume, rev... More