ATELIER VICTORIA MIGLIORE, A SUSPENDED HOUSE
Winner of the Young Woman Architect Award (ARVHA) 2022 and the European Architecture Award for Under 40s, Victoria Migliore is focused on a sensitive, rigorous, and deeply contextualised approach to architecture.
The architect has designed a redevelopment and expansion project for a private residence In Pouilly (60), a village in northern France at the foot of a wooded hill, exploring the relationship between shadow, light and substance.
The original building, a majestic stone structure, has been completely restored. Partition walls and superfluous finishes have been removed, freeing up space and showcasing the texture of the stone and original flint fragments. In contrast with this old mineral structure, the extension adopts a complementary approach: one of lightness and brightness. The new, approximately 100-square-meter extension, perpendicular to the main structure, is set back from the shaded area to capture maximum light.
Suspended three meters above the ground, it dialogues with the slope and surrounding vegetation, connected by a wooden walkway clad in shiny stainless steel. The project’s gentle outline has a light, slender, rhythmic, triangular pine structure rising on foundations of flint and aggregate concrete that evokes the old materials and local resources.
Client: Private ; Project: Atelier Victoria Migliore; Program: Renovation and extension of a private residence; Area: 160 m² renovation + 110 m² extension; Credits: Photographs © Aurélien Chen
