Airstream House by TANK Architects
TANK Architects have designed the Airstream House in Bersée, France.
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This project is located on a narrow and sloping plot, on the edge of a village. The way the house had to be laid out wasn’t easy since the regulations and neighborhood limits were restricting. To avoid a very long and narrow house, the project is split in three parts, on semi levels using the natural slope.
The first part is on the same level as the road and includes the main hall, the laundry, the play-room, the garage, the cellar and the geothermal energy local. The second one is 80cm above the slot with large views on the outstanding landscape all around, in north, east and west directions. It comprises the living spaces : living room, kitchen and dining room. The third one is on top of the first part and offers rooms and bathrooms.
This process answers the very initial demand of the clients who wished a one-level-house. The 3 parts of the house meet in a suspended patio which distributes the different spaces, creates multiple relations between them and articulates one to another. The patio is the central knot between the living spaces, the main hall and the rooms.
Visit the TANK Architects website – here.
Photography by Luc Boegly
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Great on 05 Oct 2010 at 6:14 am #
Simple and unassuming. It’s a nice, modern farmhouse.
TW on 05 Oct 2010 at 1:16 pm #
hmm. Nope.
The exterior tries too hard – boxes? pointless cantilevers?
Plus the interior is too ordinary for words. They may have tried to give it a shot of colour in the bathroom but what the interior really needs is warmth.
And unlike the previous house in New York, the building details are not right. Any decent architect should no better than to put lights so close to glass doors/windows. So much glare. And the cornice and architrave finishing is really poor also.
dhrbikes on 05 Oct 2010 at 1:25 pm #
Cool but where is the neighborhood?
contracept on 17 Oct 2010 at 6:43 pm #
agreed! pointless cantilevers indeed…without it it would look like a pseudo-prairie house, much more fitting to it’s surroundings.
The interior looks like one from those german DIY magazines. Cheap and uninspiring