A collection of red-concrete cylinders had been used to replace the structure, circulation and lighting of this home in Versaille, renovated by French studio Atelier Delalande Tabourin.
Relationship again to the Fifties, the prevailing brick and concrete house beforehand had a compartmentalised inside that felt separated from its massive backyard, in addition to an unused basement.
Atelier Delalande Tabourin reconfigured and unified these areas by inserting a collection of curved concrete volumes, which comprise inner and exterior staircases in addition to gentle wells for the basement and a hearth within the residing space.
“Breaking with the prevailing construction, the geometrically round motion sequences completely different residing experiences while additionally ‘fluidifying’ transitions,” mentioned Atelier Delalande Tabourin.
“[It is] a radical assertion additionally aiming to revive significance and emotion to circulation areas, too typically ignored or devoid of any explicit bodily sensation,” it continued.
The concrete insertions had been created utilizing “grogs” – aggregates created from crushed bricks which might be discarded throughout manufacturing. This led the studio to call the venture Home Rehabilitation with Bricks Shards.
Working in collaboration with designer and researcher Anna Saint-Pierre, the aggregates had been sourced from brickworks near the positioning, creating a color palette that enhances the prevailing brick construction.
“Throughout a go to to the DeWulf brickworks, we had been rapidly intrigued by an immense pile of shards known as ‘grogs’, comprising all of the unsold, deformed and overly fired bricks, that are then crushed on the economic web site,” defined the studio.
“From that second, it appeared apparent to us that we needed to seize this residue as the fabric foundation for our venture,” it continued.
Within the centre of the house, the biggest of the cylinders incorporates a skylit spiral staircase, opening onto every of the house’s three flooring by way of massive cutouts on its facet.
Surrounding this central type are a residing, kitchen and eating space on the bottom flooring and bedrooms and loos above. It additionally extends into the now-usable basement.
Towards the reddish-brown concrete, the remainder of the house’s inside has been stored minimal and white, with areas on the ground and partitions left uncovered to disclose the place earlier partition partitions as soon as stood.
Massive folding doorways within the residing space open onto a raised backyard patio and a facet entrance is accessed through a concrete stair.
Different housing initiatives in France embrace the Maison Jericho extension in Marseille by Olivia Fauvelle Structure and the all-glass Maison de Verre by Odile Decq.
The images is by Maxime Delvaux.
Mission credit:
Architect: Atelier Delalande Tabourin (ADT)
Mission supervisor: François-Xavier Jamin
Supplies reuse: Anna Saint Pierre
BET construction: Con-Struct
