源展馆丨FranceParis丨Atelier LAVIT

Architect：Atelier LAVIT

Location：Paris, France; | ;View Map

Project Year：2023

Category：Pavilions

According to the wishes of its owners, Source pavilion is a unique and tailor-made poolhouse nestled in the heart of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, in the Villa Montmorency's neighborhood.

In a sheltered green area, spanning over a thousand square meters, this remarkable pavilion discreetly emerges among the Haussmannian residential buildings. Respecting the site’s balance with nature, the project is strategically positioned in the northwest corner of the plot to allow the living spaces and pergola to open towards the south. This arrangement maximizes the distance from neighboring properties and provides a calming refuge.

The carefully conceived landscape plan immerses its guests into a quiet urban oasis surrounded by a large variety of plants, bushes and fruit trees.

Source is envisioned as a unique architectural creation, combining the lightness of an outdoor pergola, the functionality of a poolhouse and the charm of a treehouse. This fusion results in an unusual volumetric design, combining multiple spaces and levels, offering an indoor living area of approximately seventy square meters.

On the ground floor, the wooden terrace acts as a transitional element between the garden's greenery and the mineral paving of the pool. This concrete flooring and its surroundings create a continuous flow of materials between the water basin and the living area composed of a lounging space, a summer kitchen, and a changing room. The pool’s movable floor allows a complete modularity of the outdoor area.

The pergola and roof are characterized by two inclined flat surfaces constructed from douglas wood fir slats, which conceal the habitable volumes of the two bedrooms and their amenities. Nearly invisible from the garden, these rooms feature expansive glass openings. Guests are gently cradled among the tree canopies and experience the peacefulness of a treehouse. This sensation is further enhanced by a birch tree growing in the pavilion's inner patio, hiding the spiral staircase and walkway leading to the bedrooms.

The inclined pergola, opening towards the sky, imparts a sense of increased brightness and spaciousness to the living area and pool, while still offering protection from the rain.

Given the narrow access to the site due to a passage less than a meter wide, the pavilion was designed as a completely prefabricated structure, easily transportable and assemblable on-site.

A mixed steel and wood framework was deemed the most effective construction technique. The engineering firm Bollinger+Grohmann played a crucial role in co-designing the metal framework, the various cantilevered elements, and the intricate design of the main structure's pillars.

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