Conversion of a rural property in Burtigny
The project, located in the foothills of the Jura mountains in the small village of Burtigny, involves the conversion and extension of an 18th-century rural property. It consists of two distinct parts: the conversion of an existing farm building and the construction of a semi-detached house adjoining the existing building.
The farmhouse on the street side originally had a large, unheated and unused space. The project involved insulating the entire space from the inside, adding a staircase, a few openings in the façades and a wooden mezzanine floor to create new workshop spaces.
On the large east façade of the farmhouse, on the field side, a small tool shed had been built.
Replacing it with a new space built adjoining the existing barn made it possible to accommodate a house for a couple and their two children.
The new part consists of a concrete base that is very open to the outside and a dark wooden space topped with a gabled roof covered in tiles. This architectural ensemble seeks to blend subtly into the historic village fabric. Through its compositional and material principles, it directly echoes the existing rural architecture, which already consists of a dark wooden extension set on a masonry base.
