Architects:bureau David Apheceix

Area :350 m²

Year :2019

Photographs :Maxime Delvaux

Lead Architect : David Apheceix

Design Team : Vincent Le Bourdon

Landscape : Damien Roger

Country : France

Le Pré aux Pierres is the transformation, renovation and extension of 3 farm houses in les Yvelines near Paris into a new home and project space for a Contemporary Art collector, by architect David Apheceix and designer Vincent Le Bourdon. The estate made of meadows and forest is 25 hectares but the buildings were only facing a small central courtyard.

Through a single gesture, the apposition of an orthogonal pattern onto the houses at an angle, the project aims at opening them towards the surrounding landscape and each other, through those new parallel lines. This pattern has the effect to carve volumes into the existing buildings, producing new façades, spaces and architectural elements.