Bergeyre House
BERGEYRE HOUSE
AJILE architects
SPECIAL FOUNDATIONS
FTS bâtiment, 82 avenue Raymond Aron 91 300 Massy
AREA
204 m²
CITY
Paris
ARCHITECTS
AJILE architects
ENGINEERING
5 rue Fourneaux 91 840 Soisy-sur-Ecole, AVAL consultants
YEAR
2020
PHOTOGRAPHS
Cecile Septet, AJILE architectes, Vanessa Bosio
GENERAL CONTRACTOR
BATI98, 7 rue Nobel 75 018 Paris
MANUFACTURERS
AutoDesk, Chaos Group, Fermob, Zangra, sammode, Adobe, ENO Studio, Marketset lightning, NV Gallery
SUPERVISING
BTP Consultants, Immeuble Central Gare, 1 Place Charles de Gaulle 78067 ST QUENTIN EN YVELINES CEDEX
COUNTRY
France
SOILD INVESTIGATION
SAGA ingénierie, 22 rue des Carriers Italiens 91 350 Grigny
FLUIDS
WATT & Cie, 20 rue de Chaponval 95 430 Auvers sur Oise
TERRAZZO FLOOR
STUDIO MINERAL, 10 rue Penthièvre 75 008 Paris
LOCATION
Paris, France
CATEGORY
Houses
Perched high up the Butte Bergeyre in the 19th arrondissement, this vertical house dominates Paris. Being able to build a new private home in Paris is a rare opportunity.
All the more unique on this very butte, fully integrated within the Parisian cityscape. The challenge was to settle in a family with four children over seven levels, on a minimal adjoining plot only 4.80 m large.
The whole project was strategically thought of as a volume, rather than a series of floors, in constant relation with its surroundings, close or distant.
Erected on ten 18-meter-deep micropiles, this 204 square-meter house is a manifesto for vertical living in dense spaces.
The house spreads over seven open levels, stitched together by polymorphous vertical circulations.
Each stage, with its specific shape, area, and use, is articulated with the next in an intricate jigsaw puzzle. Framed between two adjoining houses, this dual aspect house receives light only from two north and south opposing façade.
On the first three levels near the entrance, the common areas are all linked and seen as a coherent configuration.
The entrance level on the ground floor gives access to the living room at garden level and to the kitchen on the second floor in a common volume, where light, air circulation between the opposing front walls, and lose thresholds, all contribute to a great spatial fluidity.
The children’s bedrooms spread out over the next two levels, the third and fourth floors, interlaced together with large open landings.
In direct continuation of the common areas, and each set up as a playroom, reading corner, or private living room. On the fifth floor, withdrawn from the façades and set between two opposite decks, the master bedroom is a small aerie lodge.
This last level needs to be crossed to reach the rooftop terrace via an outdoor staircase, with an all-around view. Generously planted, the house’s crowning room towers over Paris.
This combines with natural ventilation, directly from one façade to the other.
As all north and south oriented bay windows boast different opening systems and rhythms. Such variety enables for a great diversity of drafts between each level.
Built in isolated wood bricks, the house requires little heating in winter and has a substantial cooling capacity, ideal for summer.
The house offers a calm temporality, where moving or still bodies can live in a changing space unconstrained from its four walls. This home is all about infinity.
Comfort in this house relies on the highly valued variations of light in the surroundings, but also from the very building system and its excellent inertia.
The building system also absorbs sound and no resonance or echo comes to bother this lively house.
During the COVID-period, the Maison Bergeyre makes all the more sense, conceived with foresight for a successful quarantine in a city like Paris, a testament to the necessity to integrate new housing paradigms.
