A collection of red-concrete cylinders had been used to replace the looks, circulation and lighting of this home in Versailles, renovated by French studio Atelier Delalande Tabourin.
Relationship again to the 1950s, the present brick and concrete home beforehand had a compartmentalized inside that felt separate from the massive backyard, in addition to an unused basement.
Atelier Delalande Tabourin reconfigured and unified these areas by inserting a collection of curved concrete volumes containing inside and exterior staircases in addition to mild wells for the basement and a hearth within the residing space.
“Breaking with the present construction, the geometric round motion sequences totally different life experiences whereas ‘fluidizing’ the transitions,” mentioned Atelier Delalande Tabourin.
“[It is] a radical assertion that additionally seeks to revive significance and emotion to areas of circulation, too usually ignored or missing any explicit bodily sensation,” he continued.
The concrete inserts had been made utilizing “grogs” – aggregates produced from crushed bricks which are discarded throughout manufacturing. This led the studio to name the undertaking Rehabilitation of the Home with Brick Shards.
Working in collaboration with designer and researcher Anna Saint-Pierre, the aggregates had been sourced from close by brickwork on the location, making a coloration palette that enhances the present brick construction.
“Throughout a go to to the DeWulf brickyard, we had been rapidly intrigued by an enormous pile of shards known as ‘grogs’, comprising all of the unsold, warped and overburnt bricks which are then crushed on the economic website,” defined the studio. .
“From that second, it appeared apparent to us that we needed to get our arms on this layer as a fabric foundation for our undertaking,” he continued.
Within the middle of the home, the most important of the cylinders incorporates a spiral staircase, which opens to every of the three flooring of the home by way of giant cutouts on the aspect.
Surrounding this central kind are a lounge, kitchen and eating space on the bottom ground and bedrooms and bogs above. It additionally extends into the basement which is now usable.
In opposition to the reddish-brown concrete, the remainder of the house’s inside has been saved minimal and white, with areas of the ground and partitions left uncovered to disclose the place the earlier partitions as soon as stood.
Giant bi-fold doorways from the residing space open onto a raised backyard terrace and a aspect entrance is accessed through a concrete staircase.
Different housing initiatives in France embrace the Maison Jericho extension in Marseille by Olivia Fauvelle Structure and the glass Maison de Verre by Odile Decq.
Images is by Maxime Delvaux.
Undertaking credit:
Architect: Atelier Delalande Tabourin (ADT)
Undertaking supervisor: François-Xavier Jamin
Reuse of supplies: Anna Saint Pierre
BET construction: Construct