Hospitality Architecture

POG Home / NODE architectes

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Textual content description offered by the architects. The POG home is situated in Arradon, Brittany, France. Brittany is a area with a robust id due to its language, its gastronomy, its hyperlink with the Atlantic Ocean, and its structure. The normal structure, nicely preserved, is made up of granite homes with small openings defending from storms and slate roofs, a stone initially produced within the neighboring city of Angers. These days, mass development, constituting 90% of home development, is product of concrete blocks coated in white and gable roofs product of stone slate imported from Spain. Along with these traditional traits, builders typically add a parallelepipedal quantity, imitating the trendy structure of the Thirties by Le Corbusier.

The POG home is situated in a residential residing quarter composed of this typology of home, relationship from the Eighties. The problem of the undertaking is straightforward: To conceive a home built-in into its neighborhood, taking on the codes of native structure, whereas responding to the shopper’s needs who desires a contemporary home. Furthermore, the realm is protected by a particular city regulation which requires validation by a council architect specialised within the historic/heritage facets of architectural tasks.

The home is product of masonry plastered in white just like the neighbor homes. Slate is now not produced regionally, and due to this fact it now not is sensible. It’s changed by aluminum in a darkish colour like slate. The roof and the timber body make up the standard gable roof. Nevertheless, the slope of the roof, often 45°, is elevated to 60° to refine the silhouette of the home. To the North-West and North-East, the facades are much less open however provide a view towards stunning bushes. To the South-East and South-West, the home is generously opened creating a robust hyperlink between the inside and the outside.

Pure gentle enters generously into the home whose double-height lounge presents a spectacular quantity to the shopper who likes to play the harp. Upstairs, the bedrooms profit from an atypical quantity within the form of an Indian teepee as a result of steep slope of the roof. One has a viewpoint in a tree, like a cabin, and the opposite has a fowl’s eye view of the double-height lounge. All through the home, gentle and house are designed to create a peaceable and beneficiant ambiance. The partitions and ceilings are white, amplifying the sunshine. The wood home windows and ground heat and soften the sunshine to supply a comfy ambiance.