A house in the forest - Simon Barthelemy - France

This family house is built on a hill, planted with pine, oak, and birch trees, at the heart of a wide natural protected area, mainly non-buildable.  The sloped land, densely wooded and relatively shaded, is highly restraining.

In front of this magnificent nature appears, quickly as a piece of evidence, the idea of a project strongly linked with all the operating elements; the sloped land first, to which the inverted roof pitches and the larch anthracite wood boards - horizontally or diagonally implemented in accordance with the natural movement of the land-echo. The large landscape also viewed from a trapezoidal-shaped terrace bordered by three wide full-length windows, in which the dense vegetation of the forest is reflected. Around the terrace are organized the main shared spaces.  The undulating movements of the land lastly, with which the angular geometries of the project are in tension in order to magnify them - all the pathways are rather designed with soft, curved geometries which strongly contrast with the enigmatic presence of the project in its environment.