Article source: A6A

“To build is to shelter. Raising walls to protect, and put a roof over, make shade.” Pierre Lajus.

Building a detached house nowadays, and particularly in the Royan region, a territory marked by the arrival of the modern movement during the 1950s, represents an architectural exercise in its own right.

The interest is not to bend to an aesthetic or a dogma, but rather to take advantage of this opportunity to better understand its vocabulary and codes. They go well beyond a façade work, and very often push the drawing towards a great intelligence in plan and a strong flexibility in the ways of appropriating it.

Image Courtesy © Agnès Clotis

• Architects: A6A
• Project: House in Pontaillac
• Location: Royan, France
• Photography: Agnès Clotis
• Other Participants: Atelier Archipel, BET Lapasserie, BET Becis, Boudeaud économie
• Gross Built Area: 203 m2
• Completion Year: 2018

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