一个有趣的山中舱体公寓。

这间公寓位于法国一个滑雪度假胜地，原来的公寓布局有三个卧室，一个浴室，没有公共空间。新的改建在55平方米内安置了8张床，两个浴室，一个大的公共空间。设计师最大限度的利用了空间，并设计出了为空间定制的家具，这系列家具神奇的减小了公寓的狭窄感。木家具沿一条大曲线布局，将所有的功能装进去，并留出了纯白宽敞的公共空间和看向山的视野。大的木家具里面有睡眠，储存，休息，阅读等等功能，拉上窗帘就能睡觉。整体空间用材主要是木材，采用的材料是美国胡桃木胶合板和桦木胶合板。

Our design team was invited to rethink a ski resort apartment in Menuires, France. Located at the far end of a building built in 1965, it has triple orientation that was not valued by the previous layout which was too segmented. The request was to realize the impossible : increase the living space without touching the structure, create 2 bathrooms instead of the one existing, preserve the number of beds, 8 beds in 55m2, all while maintaining separate circultaions for each.

To maximise the rather tight and constricted space, we chose to inverse the way of seeing it. Rather than trying to fit the furniture into the apartment, we decided to fit the apartment into the furniture ! However absurd this may seem, it immediately alleviated all the constraints linked to laying out tight spaces.

A large wooden curve runs through the entire space. It links all functions, creates a large living space and opens up the panoramic views on the mountains. This furniture- wall incorporates all the necessities of daily use interlocked into one another. Seating next to storage, stacked sleeping, a reading corner is attached to an interior window, the kitched is back to back with a bathroom. It is the furniture element that defines the space. It is no longer cumbersome, rather it frees up a generous space around it and maximises it’s primary functionalities.

The secondary system allows to privatise sleeping areas with curtains that roll into the existing central wall. The central space is all white, leading into the matching wrapping terrace. The interior atmosphere is inspired by the mountain and cabin feel, reintepreted in a contemporary manner. The fun interlocking system is detailed into the minute such as sleeping spaces that one must climb into it to discover a reading lamp, a small tablette, storage and a comfortable and peaceful sleeping nook.

The entire installation is treated with a single and unique material, wood. Light- coloured birch plywood for the interior spaces and American walnut plywood for the curved wall.

To accentuate the unity of the lived-in furniture-wall, every aspect of it is detailed from within. From the exterior, nothing denotes the destiny of this fun cabin in the mountains !

Here’s some more information from the h2o architects:

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h2o architectes is lead by three associates

– Charlotte Hubert architect dipl. DPLG and historical preservation architect

– Jean-Jacques Hubert architect dipl. DPLG

– Antoine Santiard architect dipl. EPFLausanne

h2o architectes is an office of creative architectural design also specializing in the restoration of ancient monuments.

Established as a firm in 2005, the leading architects have had multiple collaborations since 2000. They have executed projects and won international competitions both as independent architects as well as for other major architects (Bruno Decaris, Jakob+MacFarlane, Bernard Tschumi).

h2o works on a wide scope of projects and scales including historical monuments and sites, urban planning, architecture and design. In all projects, program development engages a team of experts from various fields, constantly renewing the relationship between context / program, use / material and precision research in innovative solutions. For every question, numerous alternatives are considered stimulating a rich and fruitful discussion with the client as well as a positive correlation between all possible envisaged resolutions.

In every projects and at different scales the office intends to combine a controled duality between a determinated possibility of uses and some situations offering possibilities for appropriation. These somewhat uncharted spaces allow for the invention of any kind of practices and customs, and therefore, for the modification of the individual’s place in a more and more controlled social space.

The various fields of creativity give birth, either with awareness or not, to the office’s approach and inspiration. The undefined role of intuition is also crucial in the office way of work. The junction between an inductive and strict process with a more free approach conducts to turn each project into an adventure both realistic and sensitive.

The office has just been awarded the Najap Prize 2008 : a recognition of a selection of young European architects and landscape planners organised by the French ministry of culture and communication.

The office has also been recently selected by the international magazine Wallpaper* for their world architects directory 2009, a selection of the best 30 emerging practices. Both Jean-Jacques Hubert and Antoine Santiard currently teach Architectural Design on a part time basis Mr. Hubert at ESAT, Superior Technical and Art School in Paris and Mr. Santiard at GSAPP, Columbia University, Paris/NY Program.

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h2o architectes

Charlotte Hubert

Jean-Jaques Hubert

Antoine Santiard

Design Architects : h2o architectes

Program : Interior design of a ski resort apartment in Menuires, France

Location : Aravis 520, Les Ménuires (73440), France

Client: Private

Area : 55m²

Date : Delivered Octobre 2011

Photo credits: Julien Attard

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