ERRE arquitectura . photos: © Jorge Peiró
The main challenge of this residential project was to create a house that maximized the isolated location, the relationship with nature, and natural light, while clearly distinguishing between day and night areas, maintaining privacy, and connecting with the surroundings. Continue reading ERRE arquitectura
ECDM Architectes Emmanuel Combarel, Dominique Marrec . photos: © Salem Mostefaoui
All our reflection starts from a tension to be established between asserting a presence and letting the view, the garden, the walkers pass. De-saturation occurs through fragmentation, through small, strongly verticalized volumes with a reduced footprint. The curves and counter-curves organize the plot. These vertical undulations reveal the ground and the sky; the solids are at the service of these framings, of this work on the depth of field. Continue reading ECDM
Graal architecture . photos: © Maxime Verret
Spread out over a vast area along the Mauldre valley, Beynes is composed of an old town and adjoined by three residential hamlets, a military camp and a national forest. At the junction of these four inhabited neighbourhoods, and away from any urban development, the new community hall asserts itself prominently in this hilly agricultural landscape punctuated by suburban housing. Continue reading Graal architecture
Common Thread is an immersive passage made from a 3D knit textile connecting a previously inaccessible 19th-century monastery courtyard in Bruges back to the city. Inspired by the medieval city’s lace-making tradition, the installation uses an innovative woven fabric to create an intricate spatial experience in a wave-like tunnel. It draws visitors in, emerging into a sunlit courtyard and engaging in a serendipitous exploration of history, craft, and technology. The transformed garden contains multiple worlds, threading past and future, form and matter, memory and space, against the rich backdrop of the monastery’s surroundings. Continue reading SO-IL
Valeria Russo
In such a delicate area in terms of density and social themes the community perceives the existing historical courtyards in the surroundings as landmarks for meeting places or spaces accessible to the poorest part of the population. Continue reading Valeria Russo
