Villa Tempérée

Villa Tempérée

Artelabo

Villa Tempérée
© Lucat aroline

ARCHITECTS
Artelabo

PHOTOS
Lucat Aroline (19)

STATUS
Built

AREA
0 Sqft - 1000 Sqft

BUDGET
$100k - 500k

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
Hérault, Languedoc-roussillon-midi-pyrénées, France

TYPE
Residential › Private House

Villa Tempérée
© Lucat aroline

The project is a second home located in the countryside, in a small village near Lodève, at the north of Montpellier.

The plot of land has a sloping topography organized in a series of platforms supported by old stone walls.

Villa Tempérée
© Lucat aroline
Villa Tempérée
© Lucat aroline

It is opening on the north on a magnificent view on wooded steep hills.

The projet integrate this landscape : following the lines of the platforms transversely to the slope, it takes shape in a ground floor building stretched in length and turned towards the view.

Villa Tempérée
© Lucat aroline
Villa Tempérée
© Lucat aroline© Lucat aroline

The outlines of the platforms are preserved.The dry stone wall below the house is simply rebuilt and extended with the site material.

A terrace with a swimming pool is created on the south side of the house.

Villa Tempérée
© Lucat aroline
Villa Tempérée
© Lucat aroline

A new retaining wall is created in a raw concrete that, by its compact minerality, contrasts sharply with the field's material, revealing it, while in turn the site refers to the purity of the lines of architecture.

The pool is digged against the wall, which closes the space of the terrace and forms a nested and intimate place in the heart of a large garden.

Villa Tempérée
© Lucat aroline
Villa Tempérée
© Lucat aroline
Villa Tempérée
© Lucat aroline

With its flat roofing the house has a horizontal line which highlights the shape of the landscape.

Its mineral aspect makes it merge with the stony platforms, and, seen from above, the projet « melts » within the landscape.

The plan is composed of a very simple rhythm of identical opaque thin « blocks », alterning with large gaps corresponding to the openings of the house.

Villa Tempérée
© Lucat aroline
Villa Tempérée
© Lucat aroline

Each block is a « servant » space with attributed functions, and between them are rooms wide opened on the outside.

The project is made of two independant buildings (a main house and children's rooms) connected on the ground level by a large terrace and up, by a light pergola.

Villa Tempérée
© Lucat aroline
Villa Tempérée
© Lucat aroline

The terrace is at the heart of the project. Second open living room, it allows to live outside while being still in the heart of the house.

Its decorative shadows, inspired by the site, gives the living space a poetic dimension.

Villa Tempérée
© Lucat aroline
Villa Tempérée
© Lucat aroline

The project’s balance, in a potentially disturbed harmony - thin changes occurring between identity in variety – as its regular intervals and measures are the keys of its unity.

Villa Tempérée
© Lucat aroline
Villa Tempérée
© Lucat aroline


Villa Tempérée
Villa Tempérée