Garderners Home / CABINET Fanny Noël Diogo Lopes Architectes

Garderners Home / CABINET Fanny Noël Diogo Lopes Architectes

Textual content description supplied by the architects. The mission is conceived in dialogue with the forest of “Belle Idee,” which is partially current to the north of the location and has step by step been cleared to make manner for agricultural fields and collective housing. The preliminary gesture was to suggest a “Clearing” surrounded by a collection of bushes. It extends the presence of the forest whereas enhancing the wildlife and flora of the place. The quantity primarily serves as a complement to the vegetation circle with its curved facade, which includes a fountain evoking a Nympheum. It offers a brand new shaded leisure house open to the residents.

This gesture is bolstered by the presence of a lantern on the roof, which appeals to the passers-by and ac-centuates the figurative high quality of the amount. The size and the composition of the façades recommend that it’s the final home within the residential neighbourhood. Its uniqueness lies within the inversion of the traditional con¬struction order. A fragile folded picket facade, coated in blue stain, extends the sky all the way down to the bottom of the clearing and attire a extra sturdy collection of terracotta brick partitions on the within. A beam construction, resembling a pergola, filters the zenithal gentle that illuminates the workshop areas.