CFE | 2023, Matthieu Boustany, France
Architects: LOCAL(Matthieu Boustany, Benoist Desfonds, Damien Bayol, Henrique Barbosa)
Client: Caisse des Français de l’Étranger
Photographer: David Cousin-Marsy, VUenVille | Bertrand Fompeyrine, BCDF Studio
The project questions the flexibility and the usage of wood; it aims to modify the traditional codes of the individual housing. The prototype dwelling is fed on research, experiments and discoveries made over time.
We confronted a search for spatial qualities that would change our idea of a living space while exploring wooden construction systems.
By wrapping the programs around a central core, we generated a generous and continuous volume. The interior topography gives a hierarchy to the different usage: standing in the kitchen to face the view; seating on the window height in the living room; a slope as a sofa; the bedroom on the higher level to guarantee its privacy while generating a covered terrace below it. Every volumetric move creates a new opportunity.
We brought together technical solutions that links the origins of construction to today's high-tech industry with a short supply chain within 60km for most elements of the house.