Villa Eiders

VILLA EIDERS

Touton Architectes

Villa Eiders
© Denis Lacharme
Villa Eiders
© Denis Lacharme

OTHER PARTICIPANTS
Engineering Office ETBA

MANUFACTURERS
Porcelanosa Grupo, Sapa Building System International NV, Eurochap, Griesser, Siniat

PHOTOGRAPHS
Denis Lacharme

AREA
405 m²

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
Lège-cap-ferret, France

CATEGORY
Houses

Villa Eiders
© Denis Lacharme

With an impressive architectural program, this house aims to split the volumes, sheltering the functions of such house to reduce their impact and to organize them around a protected terrace, opening to the south on the swimming pool and on a pine forest.

The facade, overlooking the street, is made of wood and concrete opaque volumes, which deteriorates laterally.

Villa Eiders
© Denis Lacharme
Villa Eiders
© Denis Lacharme

It welcomes the visitor almost at the middle of the space and leads him through a “fault” between closed blocks until the heart of the house, its terrace.

This facade overlooking the street, rather closed-shaped, is designed to protect children’s rooms from strong sun coming from west as well as a riddle to passersby and reveals a rupture with the consensual habit of the neighborhood to build palaces disguised as huts.

Villa Eiders
© Denis Lacharme
Villa Eiders
© Denis Lacharme

From the rooms on the ground floor, the house set up transparencies views between interior and exterior spaces.

All rooms and flows of the floor above frame the plants of the garden and of the heart of the plot.

Villa Eiders
© Denis Lacharme
Villa Eiders
© Denis Lacharme
Villa Eiders
© Denis Lacharme


Villa Eiders
Elevations
Villa Eiders
Elevations


Villa Eiders
Sections
Villa Eiders
Diagram


Villa Eiders
Ground Floor Plan
Villa Eiders
1st Floor Plan


Villa Eiders
Sketch