Sneaking a look from the neighbours window reveals a different aspect to the house. Apparently the glazed façade now gives them a hitherto unseen sunset by reflection. Can’t say I’ve heard them singing in the evening like the canary in ‘Mon Oncle’.
The garden wall in recuperated stone from the old Maison Camy, is now crowned with a generous ‘chapeau’ in white concrete. The wall will become a garden seat.
In France, both July and September have six working weeks. August has zero working weeks. The talk is of holidays. We still have builders on site. How much longer that will last is impossible to say. Given the recent speeding up of works and the expressed intention to work on Saturday I suspect the ’grand départ’ is imminent.
The Architect has opted for a dry lining on metal frame. This simplifies the work of of the electrician and makes any future wiring a lot easier. It also avoids cutting into the brickwork and reducing the insulating capacity of the wall.
It’s time to take a last look at the second floor as one large open space. The partitions will go in tomorrow, dividing the space up into three bedrooms. The Architect has designed two of the bedrooms to open completely onto the corridor and the large glazed façade. The corridor will thus become a winter garden and an extension of the bedroom volume. With this flexibility of use the Maison Camy has no surface area wasted in circulation.
Due to the extremely late arrival of the steel stair, ‘sometime in September’ a temporary stair will be required to fill the gap The Architect has designed one in timber and now needs someone qualified to build it. Thank you to those coolheaded colleagues who don't have their noses up against the problem.
The roof is 95 percent complete. Just the edge details left to sort out. The large window at the rear is being installed as I write. Wiring has started. Everybody except the metalwork contractor is pulling their weight. We still have no date for the steel stair and front railings. It's looking very likely that the house will be finished without a stair. This is not good news as The Client is not very happy when climbing ladders. Still, I'm sure that with a bit of practice she'll be up and down the ladder like a ships boy in the rigging.
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:
