Villa M in Z

The site, a spacious open spot in a forest, once the walled kitchen garden of the nearby château, has different moods and vegetations. The lack of clear restrictions on the site ultimately became a restriction in itself. This led us to decide to do ‘almost nothing’: an elementary gesture which, in its simplicity, consolidates instead of disturbs.

The powerful neutrality of this volume – long, narrow, raised, uniform and unaccentuated – provides a powerful yet elementary addition, forming an extension to the surroundings without altering the essence of the site. A new inhabited wall. The shell and its constant height, gives the garden a full-length façade, while creating the additional mood of a narrow exterior space.