Filter House

Filter House
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Filter House 

Comte/Meuwly

ARCHITECTS
Comte/meuwly

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Lucas Falbriard, Adrien Meuwly, Adrien Comte

AREA
150 M²

YEAR
2022 

LOCATION
Geneva, Switzerland

CATEGORY
Houses

Text description provided by architect.

The Filter House is an experiment about the diffuse relationship between construction and its environment, in the broadest sense, and as the most intrinsic value of the project.

Filter House
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Filter House
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Filter House
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It is very opportunistic, in a positive way, proposing a positive reciprocal relationship with everything that is already there.

A very reduced construction, almost like the dematerialization of a house, projecting living spaces in the garden, in the trees, in the surrounding industrial areas, along the railroads, in this fantastic situation that is the edge of cities.

So it's almost nothing, just what you need where you need it. The straight-forward bare materials and the proximity of the very dense vegetation.

Filter House
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Filter House
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Filter House
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The surest way to not distinguish the house from its surroundings is simply to not give it a façade.

It is therefore made of a set of layers, a filter to allow precise negotiation of the unpredictable and beautiful fluctuations of the environment.

Filter House
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Filter House
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Filter House
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Instead of the clear line of a border, it is a complex gradation between the living space and what surrounds it.

There is no inside. Let's say that the filter house is a rather complex tent. It triggers a constant awareness of the exterior and its variations.

It is ready to react, like a camper preparing his installation for the next gale. The house is projected into this wild and vast thing that is our environment.

Filter House
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Filter House
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Filter House
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Filter House
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Filter House
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Filter House
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Filter House
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Filter House
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Filter House
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Filter House
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Filter House
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Filter House
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Filter House
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