Community Housing in Villy

Community Housing in Villy
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Community Housing in Villy

Madeleine architectes, Studio François Nantermod

WOOD ENGINEERING
IngeWood

PARTNER ARCHITECTS
Antoine Béguin, Maxence Derlet

CIVIL ENGINEERING
Ovale & Partenaires Sàrl

PARTNER ARCHITECT
François Nantermod

PHOTOGRAPHS
Séverin Malaud

AREA
400 m²

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Switzerland

CATEGORY
Social Housing

Community Housing in Villy
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Community Housing in Villy
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Text description provided by architect.

At the end of a road, an existing house built by the grandfather of three grandchildren punctuates the street by its position in the center of a plot.

Community Housing in Villy
© Séverin Malaud
Community Housing in Villy
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The premise is simple, the grandchildren inherit this particular piece of land and all want to live there.

In a participatory approach, the project management invites us to several meetings with discussions and sharing during which a relationship between architects and clients, between needs and answers, is created.

Community Housing in Villy
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Community Housing in Villy
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Three entities, initially independent, collaborate on a collective and cooperative intention.

The existing house is the heart of the project, the center of gravity around which the new living units orbit.

Community Housing in Villy
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Community Housing in Villy
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Like a vital organ, it contains within itself the technical parts necessary for the functioning of the new body that surrounds it.

Upstairs, the hollowed space remains a witness to the past, offering a new and mutable place to appropriate.

Community Housing in Villy
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Community Housing in Villy
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Community Housing in Villy
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The new construction decomposes its relationship to the ground into three distinct mineral entities, these containing the living rooms and individual private terraces.

Upstairs, the absence of clear borders allows the rooms to be interchanged between the units according to the evolution of single families and their willingness to adapt.

A common belt connects the families with a single BLC structure and expresses the interplay of the spans and their resulting force. 

Community Housing in Villy
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Community Housing in Villy
© Séverin Malaud
Community Housing in Villy
© Séverin Malaud

The existing house and the new construction that surrounds it, act and determine each other like a parergon.

The interstice, an interface between the private and common spaces, presents various devices necessary for understanding the borders of living together.

Gateways and steps fill up the void that is instrumental to this dialogue.

Community Housing in Villy
© Séverin Malaud
Community Housing in Villy
© Séverin Malaud


Community Housing in Villy
© Séverin Malaud
Community Housing in Villy
© Séverin Malaud
Community Housing in Villy
© Séverin Malaud
Community Housing in Villy
© Séverin Malaud
Community Housing in Villy
© Séverin Malaud


Community Housing in Villy
First floor plan
Community Housing in Villy
Ground floor plan
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Community Housing in Villy
Site plan
Community Housing in Villy