Vignes, multipurpose and evolutive house, Vignes-la-Côte, France, 2021
From the outset, a major constraint laid the foundations of the project: reconciling different functions (individual house, consulting room, garden shed, workshop for ceramics lessons, studio for rental, etc.), preserving different degrees of privacy, and making all flexible to accommodate the client’s large family on an ad hoc basis.
Budgetary constraints make it necessary to group together as many of these functions as possible in the same building. Only two functions are the subject of a separate building: the ceramics workshop and the garden shed, grouped together in a building at the entrance to the plot that can easily be transformed into a garage. The main building therefore brings together all the other programs.
This is made possible by four simple principles: – square and equivalent main rooms (same surfaces, same windows), able to accommodate any of the functions, – servant spaces grouped in strips and inserted between served spaces, allowing various connections with the main rooms while serving as buffer spaces, – separate entrances to preserve the privacy of studio tenants, customers and residents, – movable partitions (sliding doors, curtains) completing the system of traditional partitions.
These choices, in addition to responding to the program by offering a wide variety of configurations, give the owner and her successors a glimpse of great adaptability over time while incurring a minimum of work. The house, with a wooden frame and insulated with rigid wood fiber panels, is clad in corrugated sheets of natural aluminum which reflect the Breton sky and evoke the agricultural buildings of the region.
The bays are oriented to take maximum advantage of solar gain. The overhangs of the roof protect from the summer radiation from the south, while providing spaces sheltered from the rain at the entrances and main rooms.
Architect: R+R architectureDesign Team: Romain Delvalet, Raphaël Perdrisot et Anaïs LherbetClient: PrivatePhotographer: images by R+R architecture
