Croft 3

In the style of giving it all up and dropping out of society, two work colleagues decide to continue their globe trotting careers in a croft in a far flung corner of bonnie Scotland. More braving Scotland than 'Scotland the Brave', their new life must seem a million miles from urban France. Undaunted by the rigours of Highland life they have embarked upon building an extension - now that really is brave.
With such a multitude of media stories on families from middle England giving up fluff job careers to buy abandoned garlic farms in La Creuse it's good to know that someone's going in the opposite direction. The blog is called :
3 and 1/2 of 4...and a bit more
I presume this is a reference to the renaissance of algorithm generated organic forms in current cutting edge architectural projects.....Anyways here's wishing you good luck.
Footnote:
On seeing the above photo The Client, for whom anywhere that doesn't have a handy 6 lane motorway and large expanses of concrete and asphalt conjures up images of dueling banjos, simply said 'how far is the nearest hospital?'.
Le projet, dan sa volumétrie, est une réponse simple et économique à l’évolution des réglementations multiples et contraignantes d’urbanisme dans une zone inondable.
L’hétérogénéité architecturale du quartier pavillonnaire permet une esthétique unique exprimée par le choix des matériaux pour les façades et la composition informelle des baies.
La maison consiste en un volume rectangulaire implanté entre les deux limites séparatives. Le volume est
divisé en trois éléments principaux:





2 comments:
3 and 1/2 of 4...Well, yes. It does symbolically (re)present the shift between the outright formalism of the mi-90's to the mathematically driven formalism of the 00's...technically speaking though, it's our address.
Oh...and thanks for the post!
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