Maison Martin

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Opera Prima

Alexandre’s uncle, liv­ing in Mexico with wife and chil­dren, work­ing with the Chiappa indi­ans, asked us to recon­verse a horse barn of the 16th cen­tury situ­ated on the prop­erty of the fam­ily in Concise at the lake of Neuchâtel. Once fin­ished, they would rein­stall their lives in Switzerland. This meant, before the e‑mail existance, that our com­mu­nic­a­tion in dis­tance was based on air post paper lettre exchange. Each time we recieved a reac­tion by the post­man of our pro­ject pro­pos­al we could smell through the envel­op the mex­ic­an jungle and this gave to the whole pro­ject a strange touch of exot­ism with­in an exist­ing tra­di­tion­al con­struc­tion cul­ture. Our idea was to use the exist­ing rigour of the wooden struc­ture at the inside and to strengthen them with brick walls to cre­ate three tranches, each with dif­fer­ent hights. Beside the great coach entries, the few small exist­ing win­dows forced the pro­ject to use enfil­ades to light­en the inner parts of the plan. 

Concise Avant 170608 100544 1

La grange 16ème avant travaux.

01 Concise Fû T Web

La grange 16ème avant travaux, la tra­verse centrale.

Concise Plan

plan

Concise Chantier

Le chanti­er, deux murs struc­tur­ant l’espace.

Concise Coupe

Coupe

Babl 002 Concise 8

Séjour, cuisine, dilata­tion & distribution.

Babl 002 Concise 9

Enfilades

Opera Prima

Alexandre’s uncle, liv­ing in Mexico with wife and chil­dren, work­ing with the Chiappa indi­ans, asked us to recon­verse a horse barn of the 16th cen­tury situ­ated on the prop­erty of the fam­ily in Concise at the lake of Neuchâtel. Once fin­ished, they would rein­stall their lives in Switzerland. This meant, before the e‑mail existance, that our com­mu­nic­a­tion in dis­tance was based on air post paper lettre exchange. Each time we recieved a reac­tion by the post­man of our pro­ject pro­pos­al we could smell through the envel­op the mex­ic­an jungle and this gave to the whole pro­ject a strange touch of exot­ism with­in an exist­ing tra­di­tion­al con­struc­tion cul­ture. Our idea was to use the exist­ing rigour of the wooden struc­ture at the inside and to strengthen them with brick walls to cre­ate three tranches, each with dif­fer­ent hights. Beside the great coach entries, the few small exist­ing win­dows forced the pro­ject to use enfil­ades to light­en the inner parts of the plan. 

Concise Avant 170608 100544 1
01 Concise Fû T Web
Concise Plan
Concise Chantier

Le chanti­er, deux murs struc­tur­ant l’espace.

Concise Coupe
Babl 002 Concise 8
Babl 002 Concise 9
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