Olgga Architects

Flake House

Flake House
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FLAKE HOUSE

Olgga Architects

ARCHITECTS
Olgga Architects

AREA
22.0 m2

YEAR
2009

LOCATION
Frossay, France

CATEGORY
Houses

Text description provided by architect.

The flake house, a nomadic, road-gauged dwelling, has been conceived to clad the places wherever it lands, as to transpose theses in an unusual vision.

A poetical shelter, a “folie”,that merges low-tech and hi-tech. The interior finish is smooth and stripped down as to contrast with the traditional look of the external log cladding.

Flake House
© Olgga Architects
Flake House
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Created in 2006 for the competition “Petites machines à habiter” held by the CAUE 72, OLGGA’ proposal for this nomadic wooden shelter is based on the concept of the «folie», where the wooden structure is broken in two halves establishing a radical spatial boundary while materializing an unexpected entry sequence.

An object, recalling a broken branch, whose unconventional scale is the main idea of the project: to be built-up, taken down, moved, put down, left behind or taken along, inhabited or left to it’s surrounding.

First a short-listed entry in the competition that gave birth to the concept, then winner of the “Lauriers de la construction bois” of the Salon du Bois in Grenoble in 2007, the flake house cause curiosity and desire.

Flake House
© Olgga Architects
Flake House
© Olgga Architects
Flake House
© Olgga Architects

Last year, the flake house was set up in Nantes (FRANCE) between the 5 june and 16 august at the Festival Estuaire Nantes/ St Nazaire organized by the Lieu Unique.

The Flake house was located on the site of Frossay (Le Carnet).

Flake House
Elevations 01
Flake House
Elevations 02

I.C.I.! (Instant Carnet Island) is a temporary refuge of micro-architectures and light habitat meeting based on the bank of the Loire and open to anybody.


Flake House
floor plan

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