Guesthouse in a Forest of Oak Bushes / SAPIENS ARCHITECTES

“Within the village of Valojoulx, within the southwest of France, Sapiens Architectes has simply accomplished a stone, wooden, and glass “cabanon” nestled within the oak forest. The order was easy: a reception home, typically for visitors (excessive season), typically for artists in residence (off-season). Inserted within the slope, the constructing crops its highly effective gables in native stone to the east and west and unfolds massive glass surfaces in the direction of the forest, sectioned with picket mullions.

The widespread room is situated on the higher backyard degree; it rises above the slope and gives a panoramic view of the bushes. On the decrease backyard degree, the person evening areas replicate this beneficiant opening onto the vegetation.

The reference to the surroundings is rarely misplaced, making the rustling of leaves, the variations of sunshine, and the calm move of time, delicate. It’s due to this means of the structure to resonate with the place and the reminiscence, to hyperlink occasions, that the architects form a heritage continuity.

But they don’t hesitate to make use of modern supplies: metal for the woodwork, gray corrugated iron for the gable roof, whose coloration will mimic that of the Lauze stone of the neighboring buildings over time. Fruit of actuality, the structure of Sapiens needs to have the power of the need: it couldn’t be transposed elsewhere.”