Treehouse | 2018, Victoria Migliore, France

Architects: Atelier Victoria Migliore
Lead Architect: Victoria Migliore
General Contractor: La Charpenterie
Client: Private
Photographer: Cyril Folliot

The suspended house is designed as a cube whose morphology organically responds to its surrounding. The volume is primarily shaped by the presence of existing trees. A central patio sculpts the cabin and creates luminous connections between different rooms. This patio is, in reality, a suspended basin serving as a fishpond. It allows the rest of the house to build around it, especially the kitchen, which is an extension of it.

The team wanted to play with different tensions: the bright and soft interior contrasting with the monolithic dimension of the volume seen from the outside and the wild surrounding nature. From the inside, the connections with the outside seem to fade, and this boundary raises questions, inviting a sensory experience. All spaces, with their dimensions determined by the trees, are visually connected to each other.

The whole generates a paradoxically intimate and generous setting. The proximity to the coast influenced our desire to insert this construction by minimizing the construction footprint.

Thus, the house perches on a lightweight structure composed of screw piles, imposing no masonry. The composition stands as a project with a discreet and airy presence facing the lagoon.