A Rural Renovation by Les Ateliers Permanents
The undertaking started as a near-ruin in Aurignac, France: an uninhabited medieval home, pared again to its stone construction. When a Paris-based artist found the village by likelihood and determined to remain, he enlisted Les Ateliers Permanents—based by Chloé Morin and Enzo Fruytier, with an workplace in Aurignac—to rebuild it as a working dwelling. “We work the place individuals reside, the place on a regular basis life has taken root: within the margins, the outskirts, the countryside, small city facilities,” Morin explains. “All over the place, the duty is to take heed to what the territory tells us—and to reply with precision and care.”
Right here, the intervention was in depth by necessity. The home had sat empty for almost 20 years and was in poor situation, so the architects labored from the perimeters inward. Solely the partitions and a part of the prevailing construction remained, with one part previously used as a barn. The roof was rebuilt and insulated; flooring excavated and insulated; and the inside ranges reworked right into a stepped sequence. The principle dwelling space, as soon as open air with packed earth flooring, is now organized round a double-height quantity that pulls mild into the plan. Bogs have been added the place there had been none.
It’s a contemporary layer that aligns with the studio’s broader ethos: “Constructing now not essentially means establishing a brand new, however intervening with care in what’s already there. Rehabilitating, adapting, remodeling—not by default, however by selection.” Right here’s a glance.
Images by Sandrine Iratcabal for Les Ateliers Permanents.
