Bureau Brisson Architectes updates Swiss “hybrid” dwelling with blue cabinetry
A sea-blue storage unit helps prepare residing areas inside this household dwelling in Corseaux, Switzerland, which has been overhauled by Bureau Brisson Architectes.
Located near the shore of Lake Geneva, the 1920s dwelling has been overhauled by Bureau Brisson Architectes to function a a lot easier ground plan.
The home was erected throughout the identical decade as Le Corbusier’s Villa Le Lac – a modernist concrete vacation dwelling that the famend Swiss-French architect created close by on Lake Geneva for his mother and father – and equally boasts an alternate architectural fashion.
“From the outside, the home is a hybrid. It’s a type of combine between a chalet with its massive roof, its expressive eaves and a uncommon instance of timber-framed development with a country bedrock,” Alan Hasoo, associate on the follow, informed Dezeen.
“[The owners] had a preliminary expertise with different architects, however weren’t fully happy with it – their programmatic temporary was subsequently fairly clear once we met them,” mentioned Hasoo.
“However that they had a extra open thoughts about what was to occur on the bottom ground. They requested us to rethink the relation between the prevailing kitchen, eating room and front room,” he continued.
Partition partitions have been knocked by on the previously fragmented floor degree to kind one largely open-plan residing area, divided by a floor-to-ceiling storage unit that extends from one aspect of the house to the opposite.
It includes gold-handled cabinets the place inhabitants can stow away their possessions and a sequence of cabinets that may overtly show books or ornaments.
It has been painted a deep shade of blue, in a refined visible reference to the color of the waters in Lake Geneva.
One aspect of the unit performs host to the kitchen and eating space, which is centred by a protracted timber desk perched on a fluffy rug.
The opposite aspect accommodates a sitting room, which is dressed with a tan leather-based couch, woven cushions and a few potted vegetation.
Aside from the brand new herringbone-pattern wood flooring, different historic fixtures within the dwelling just like the door and window frames have been preserved. The doorway hallway additionally options authentic patterned tiles.
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“No vital actions have been carried out on the facade with a view to maintain its distinctive expression alive,” added the follow.
Rooms upstairs on the primary ground have additionally been up to date. The toilet now options grid-like surfaces clad in clear white tiles and a dormer window that appears by to a close-by UNESCO-listed winery.
The sink basin is mounted on a blue function wall that nods to the storage unit downstairs.
Up within the attic – which was beforehand simply an overflow area – the follow has established a master suite. Painted completely white, the room’s pitched roof frames a window that overlooks the encircling mountains outdoor.
Bureau Brisson Architectes relies in Lausanne and was based by architect Germain Brisson. Final yr the follow overhauled a household dwelling within the Swiss neighbourhood of Chailly, changing it into three rentable residences.
The flats have been accomplished with standout decor particulars like green-stained joinery and orange-flecked terrazzo flooring.
Pictures is by Hasoo – Photoo.
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Thermal engineer: AcroWatt Sàrl
Asbestos advisor: Batitox