Mademoiselle.
Imagined as a theatre, Mademoiselle is breathing in Bordeaux stone cottage. The facade and roof are the same, but when we enter inside, the space is colored and multiplies, illuminates and expands to define a partition functional and fanciful, contemporary and free, open to the outside and soft as a cocoon.
1 > Mademoiselle's story.
Originally a small stone house built in 1930 in Bordeaux. Its proportions and absence of moldings on the façade make it modest but its location terraced houses overhanging the street allows him to showcase its proportions kept to 32 River Street. We're talking about an house, but the space inside was half garage and half residential. The ground floor was entirely occupied by a large garage and the outside stairs to the backyard, we climbed upstairs to access the living space. A small kitchen, a micro bathroom and two small bedrooms opened exclusively by two street windows of the main facade and turned their backs on the little light back yard.
The project must be able to integrate in the small house the architecture and design studio elua®, a residential area for a young family and a planted outside.
Draw Mademoiselle is imagined a powerful breath of air in the existing, breathing to open space, breaking down walls and multiply levels.
We enter through the only preserved part of the house, corridor, narrow and dark, dressed entirely in black. It is an oppressive hose that goes to the studio or housing. The ground hosts the elua® Street studio, open to the public space, wide and accessible, it takes the place of the garage and opens its volume on the street by a fully foldable bay. 30 fluorescent tubes graphically illuminate the workspace.The dark and dank courtyard and outdoor stairs are replaced by an ultra-bright kitchen, zenithalement lit by a glass roof that covers the entire surface.
A new concrete staircase is the spine of Mademoiselle, crossing the interior volume, new border between workspace and living space. We climb the stairs and discover an inner facade, designed, drawn and cut like a stack of simple shapes, primitive micro-architecture of our childhood, reflecting in a mirror-wall and cut her silhouette in the blue night of his background. Inside are imagined dressing room, bathroom and toilet, attic room, a Japanese cabin room and lots of storage to remove any furniture in the interior construction.
The living-room takes all the surface level of the house. It is through, connecting the rue de Rivière to the heart block and reveals the beautiful volume retained under the profile of the frame. A small wooden bridge over the new staircase provides access to the terrace. The terrace consists of a metal grating placed above the kitchen canopy. A green wall is connected to the beautiful terraced gardens and allows you to draw a dense background and green visible through large windows full height.
Imagined as a theatre, Mademoiselle is breathing in Bordeaux stone cottage. The facade and roof are the same, but when we enter inside, the space is colored and multiplies, illuminates and expands to define a partition functional and fanciful, contemporary and free, open to the outside and soft as a cocoon.
It's Mademoiselle.
