20MAY 2021
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Once upon a time in Audierne lived a local fisherman nicknamed “Sentinel”.
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© One century later, his descendants bought a piece of land in Audierne, up on a hill and facing the same ocean horizon their ancestor used to gaze at.
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The project is located on a narrow and irregular piece of land, at the edge of a block and at the entrance of the village.
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© Considering the peculiarity of this location, a traditional compact house would have had a strong impact on the surrounding landscape.
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© The main house, a barn house-like wooden structure, is situated below while two lower blocks occupy the upper part of the land.
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The three-slope roof and the different levels optimize spaces while minimizing the size of the building, providing a view on the ocean with a minimal impact on the surrounding landscape.
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More than being a mere reinterpretation of the local traditional barn house, this project is an answer to a very particular and irregular piece of land, and to a very specific urban tissue with a wide range of architectural typologies.
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© The project is dynamic, and its perspectives are consistently changing.
© Seen from its South side, the house echoes with the traditional barn houses, while from the North side, it shows very contemporary lines.
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The different materials composing the house are echoing with the diversity of the surrounding colors and elements: western red cedar cladding, mixed slate/zinc roofing, white wall coating and black stained wood.
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The functional layout is based on bioclimatic design principles and site conditions: the car park at North side creates an acoustic and climatic screen, the main spaces face the ocean towards South, while the bedrooms face the East.
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A skylight is located in the middle of the house bringing natural light to most of the space, and steel mesh along the stairs creates a transparency that keeps changing together with the motion of the clouds above.
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This very specific steel mesh is used by local fishermen to catch local seashells.
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The wood structure – visible from the inside - was digitally prefabricated in order to get complete control over the construction process.
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Materials:
- Structure: Wood Structure - Masonry
- Cladding: Western Red Cedar / Black stained wood / white coating wall
- Roofing: Slate / Zinc / Steel pan.
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Sentinel House / Aurelien Chen
Posted in Architecture - Houses by * FORMAKERS
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