Romaric Richoux

Specifically, this work, on the reference of two houses, will focus intensively on understanding issues of volume, shape, geometry and spatial structure through their adaptation to a variation of program data without taking into account a particular environment.

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This project is an interweaving of two houses, two different ways of living. The principle is to take the program from Glenn Murcutt's Marie Short House and compose it in the Bow-Wow Nora House style.

 

To really understand how to compose architecture, we must study all strong points of houses's own idendity. The biggest difficulty was converting a small house with the Marie Short program.

 

The composition was made by reintroducing a grid and constraining the house into a volume halfway between the two houses.

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Once the strong points of the house were added, namely the level changes and especially this roof that accentuates the perspectives in the rooms and add skylights so expensive to the Japanese composition today. 

The "monster" house is redecomposed if one draws the volume on the left and right to the basic shape of the Marie short house.

In short, the habitat dimension can only be achieved by integrating the geometry of space and the usses and customs of society.