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Project • By YKAA • Private Houses
Solarium House
From the get-go, our simplicity-loving clients, a couple with their three dogs, requested a compact house with a sunroom where everyone could come together. However, the land presented a certain challenge - it is located in a chaotic urban zone with limited natural light. As a result, we started looking into different ways to handle natural light as well as to create an open space in this particular context. In addition, during this process, we realized that it would be important to design a dwelling place with a sense of psychological distance from its surroundings.
©Ikuya Sasaki
©Ikuya Sasaki
First of all, we created an open space, hereinafter referred to as the Solarium, with an atrium in the centre of the buil... More
Project • By Dominique Coulon & associés • Swimming Pools
Swimming pool complex in Fondettes
The swimming pool complex lies beside the entrance to the town of Fondettes, just a few kilometres from the city of Tours. The urban backdrop here is mainly residential with a housing estate. The site of the swimming pool complex is completely flat. It faces a roundabout that was recently built.
Eugeni Pons
The edifice plays the demanding role of signalling its presence while creating a new landscape. Its long white walls stretch afar and seem to reflect the skyline. The outline of this structure is lunar and dreamlike. It unfolds in the middle of fields, its series of concave lines culminating by the entrance to the town. With perspective, its curved walls, which extend over a hundred metres, reach spellbinding slenderness and a mesm... More