A cantilevered concrete cover shelters a brand new entrance to this extension of a modernist-style home within the Ardèche, which was accomplished by French follow Alors Studio.
Positioned in a small village within the south of France, the home was initially inbuilt 2007 as a vacation dwelling and consists of three separate areas linked by an exterior path.
In search of to unify the house and create a “extra intimate environment”, Paris-based Alors Studio created a brand new entrance and inside hall linking every of the home's blocks, in addition to extending it with extra bedrooms.
“The prevailing home, product of separate models, develops alongside its size,” co-founder Baptiste Fleury instructed Dezeen.
“One of many key factors of our intervention was to recreate a brand new centrality, a coronary heart for this home, which may reconnect these unbiased components.”
“We needed the brand new plan to recreate the density for a greater use of the home day-after-day,” he added.
The studio designed a brand new entrance with a cantilevered concrete cover to the west, beneath which a hall connects an present bed room block to a brand new one. This creates an axis that runs previous a small sitting space within the central block of the home.
The newly created bedrooms are organized round a small patio that faces the rear of the location, framing views of an present dry stone wall.
Within the central block, the residing, eating and kitchen areas overlook a paved terrace, partially sheltered by a cover, providing elevated views over the panorama.
“The positioning behind the plot is characterised by the dry stone retaining wall, a powerful architectural component within the Ardèche area,” defined Fleury.
“We determined to develop the venture alongside this sturdy panorama component to disclose a nature beforehand uncared for by the earlier venture.”
On the jap finish of the location, the unique paved exterior route has been maintained, resulting in a further bed room block which is separated from the remainder of the home.
The extension mirrors the modernist fashion and uncovered concrete surfaces of the unique home, with a contrasting look to the vernacular structure of the realm that Alors Studio needed to keep up.
In the primary hall, concrete surfaces are softened by built-in storage and window benches completed in darkish wooden.
“We determined to make use of the identical language of uncovered concrete on the facades, ground and ceiling, however suggest a really completely different strategy to the environment it creates,” defined Fleury.
“Whereas the geometry and total group of the present plan generates areas which are extremely uncovered to daylight, with harsh shadows and views to the horizon, we needed the extension to be quieter and extra intimate.”
“It creates a toned down environment, though the materiality is identical,” he concluded.
Different French tasks lately featured on Dezeen embody the wood-shingled Gilbert Raby Therapeutic Workshops by Tolila+Gilliland and a sequence of house blocks by structure studio CoBe and design company WEEK raised on concrete arches.
The photograph is by Lorenzo Zandri.