Stone, colour and transparency.
Exposed stone, glass blocks and colour give the place its identity. Archives from the making of a project that is now inhabited.
FRUGAL ARCHITECTS
Completed and inhabited project. Edited views and decorative proposals alongside photographs of its construction.
At Châtaigniers, materials offer a reading of contrasts. Exposed stone retains its relief; glass blocks play with transparency; touches of colour introduce another intensity. The eye moves between them without losing the thread of the space.
Photographs of the building process reveal these encounters with particular directness. A surface still being finished, a meeting of materials, an element of joinery: the character of the place is already visible in the details, before everything is fully in place.
Châtaigniers is now completed and inhabited. The views gathered here are archives of its construction. They record materials as they were installed and reveal the relationships between stone, light and colour.