Quiet House

Artelabo designed an introverted house in Gignac, France, which entirely turns towards the landscape, using a banal constructive language and an obvious formal register.

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The aim of the project is to create the conditions for intimacy. The introverted house, hidden from the sight, entirely turns towards the landscape. Its architecture is characterized by a regular, simple and systematic composition, using a banal constructive language and an obvious formal register, which, by disrupting the codes of the usual, gives a singular aesthetic to be seen.

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Artelabo, Quiet House, Gignac, France, 2017

Artelabo, Quiet House, Gignac, France, 2017

Artelabo, Quiet House, Gignac, France, 2017

Artelabo, Quiet House, Gignac, France, 2017

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Artelabo, Quiet House, site plan

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Artelabo, Quiet House, ground floor

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Artelabo, Quiet House, section

The overall geometry of the house is based on a repeated sequence of four volumes, inscribed in a regular pattern, enclosed within a peripheral wall, and organizing four courtyards within the dwelling. Their form, with two slopes of roof, evokes a small house. A large fixed frame opens wide the house on the landscape.

Its powerful contrast between its opaque and closed external appearance and the intensity of the light provided by courtyards, gives strength to its interior space. All rooms open on one, two or three courtyards and the panorama, through a single system of aligned glass doors.