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Project • By Patrick Arotcharen Architecte • Private Houses
Villa Bouscat
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
News • News • 6 Jan 2023
Studio XM infuses a former farmhouse in southern France with monastic architectural qualities and materiality
In the south of France, MA House, in its found condition, was a small former farmhouse sitting in the forest, weathering away for more than a decade and fading comfortably into the landscape.
From its peaceful and ruinous state, Studio XM worked to bring back the house to life, infusing it with the monastic architectural qualities known to the valley’s traditional built fabric.
Simone Bossi
More than a simple reconstruction, the house was envisioned as a renewal emphasizing the existing house's quirks and careful craftsmanship. The existing structure was carefully dismembered in phases. The footprint and envelope were subtly altered yet remained much in keeping with the proportions of the old farmhouse.
Simone... More