Max’s House in a Small Lake

I’ve been meaning to post this for a while – darn computer. This is Max’s house in a small lake, Nimes, France…

Can you guess who by?

Offbeat favorite, Antonino Cardillo of course. Does this fellow ever stop creating new ideas?

This house, due to be completed by the year’s end, is a very cool new design from Cardillio, my favorite part possibly being how it appears to merge with the water. Check out the lake setting…

“Outside, to the south, the living area extends its own teak flooring so as to lap the swimming pool. Beyond the mirror of water, in an ambiguous and inaccessible place, a portico measures and interprets the landscape. To the north of the glass room, a textile parabola, stretched between the two edges of the building, shades the external dining area. Lastly, the eccentric collocation of a tower for the stairs subverts the symmetrical composition of the building and determines oblique perceptions of its internal spaces, thus becoming the essential key to a reading of the architectonic text.”

 

Kind of luscious no? The house is two levels; each distinct, “A compact basement in travertine comprises the hall and bedroom on whose terrace is set a high, luminous living room, articulated by a slender white metal structure. This at the same time designs the textures of the perimetral glass surfaces. The landscape, from within, is thus broken up into myriad quadrants and undergoes an analytical process of reconstruction.”

To see more images and to read more about this home visit World Architecture News.

If you like this house, you can see more of Cardillio’s work at:

• Flamenco y arquitectura
• Antonino Cardillo’s Vaulted House
• Birnbeck Island
• Antonino Cardillo
• Antonino Cardillo: Take Two

[images via Antonino Cardillo]