Garderners House

Garderners House
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Garderners House

CABINET Fanny Noël Diogo Lopes Architectes

YEAR
2023

LOCATION
Thônex, Switzerland

TYPE
Houses

The project is conceived in dialogue with the forest of “Belle Idee,” which is partially present to the north of the site and has gradually been cleared to make way for agricultural fields and collective housing.

Garderners House
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Garderners House
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Garderners House
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The initial gesture was to propose a “Clearing” surrounded by a series of trees.

It extends the presence of the forest while enhancing the wildlife and flora of the place.

The volume primarily serves as a complement to the vegetation circle with its curved facade, which incorporates a fountain evoking a Nympheum. It provides a new shaded leisure space open to the residents.

Garderners House
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Garderners House
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Garderners House
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This gesture is reinforced by the presence of a lantern on the roof, which appeals to the passers-by and ac-centuates the figurative quality of the volume.

The scale and the composition of the façades suggest that it is the last house in the residential neighbourhood. Its uniqueness lies in the inversion of the conventional con¬struction order.

A delicate folded wooden facade, coated in blue stain, extends the sky down to the base of the clearing and dresses a more robust series of terracotta brick walls on the inside.

Garderners House
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Garderners House
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Garderners House
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A beam structure, resembling a pergola, filters the zenithal light that illuminates the workshop spaces.


Garderners House
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Garderners House
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Garderners House
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Garderners House
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Garderners House
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