Mountain House II

Mountain House II

Mountain House II

Studio Razavi Architecture

AREA
1000 Sqft - 3000 Sqft

STATUS
Built

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Gerbaix, France

TYPE
Residential › Private House

This house was commissioned as a primary residence by a family of four moving to France from the UK.

Mountain House II
Mountain House II
Mountain House II

It is located in the lower Alps, a more rural landscape than ski-oriented regions.

The house needed to capture the surrounding landscape, provide generous spaces inside but appear contained from the outside.

Our initial design (of a single pitched roof, reminiscent of 1950s regional constructions) was rejected despite several revisions & iterations, on the basis that all new construction had to have double pitched roofs to make them look more vernacular.

Mountain House II
Mountain House II

The building code however stated that under certain conditions of sustainable design, a flat roof would be allowed.

We seized the opportunity to express the changing climate context (snow precipitation has become less frequent, flat roofs have therefore become a viable option from a structural point of view) and contribute to rejuvenating the Alpine design typology.

Mountain House II
Mountain House II
Mountain House II