Article source: Lacroix Chessex Architectes

This house from 1936 is surprising by its height, much more important than houses from the neighborhood. The cover (roof and frontage) has to be renovating because of massive thermal losses. Moreover the owner finds his house to big and wishes to rent a part of it. So the mission is to reset up reconfigure the inside and rethink all the external cover, which means proposing a new architectural expression.

Image Courtesy © Joël Tettamanti

• Architects: Lacroix Chessex Architectes
• Project: Maison R
• Location: Coppet (VD), Switzerland
• Photography: Joël Tettamanti
  
• Team: Dan Troyon and Boris Pflugfelder
• Total floor area: 350 m²
• Complete: 2015

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