Article source: ARBA

A private house built in a grove near Fontainebleau. The building is compact and its higher floor levels are incorporated into a wooden roof.

When we first visited the garden in which this house was to be built, we came to the conclusion that the challenge would be one of scale. A high or extended building would have blocked and ruined the full view of this charming orchard. And we had to find the right balance between our intervention (the building’s height and ground impact) and the site proper.

Image Courtesy © Hervé Abbadie

• Architects: ARBA (Jean-Baptiste Barache & Sihem Lamine)
• Project: The House In The Grove
• Location: Veneux-les-Sablons, France
• Photography: Hervé Abbadie
  
• Companies involved: Duhamel/AUTIGNY, Menuiserie Ressy/AUXY
• Project Year: 2011

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