Topless house | Avignon Clouet Architectes

Located on the Atlantic coast, the topless house replaces a dilapidated veranda formerly adjoining the main holiday house . A small architectural digest, it offers its users multiple spatial configurations. With a removable roof, it reveals itself letting in the first rays of sunshine of the day. The overhang ,defying the laws of gravity, acts as a cap extending the living space .

The sliding windows, equipped with the «turnable corner vitrocsa» system, can be manipulated and stored to allow free movement towards the raised polished concrete terrace. The construction is then stripped of all its accessories.

Stretching over 7 m in length, the kitchen unit ends its journey on a back door leading to a master bedroom designed as a maisonette with its two-slope roof.

Its interior geometry is disturbed by the encounter with the access tunnel that connects it to the main entrance of the house. This passage with the Hellenistic look contains the wardrobe.

With a full-foot bathroom, it looks like a hotel room.

Outside, a removable terrace tray covers and reveals a staircase leading under the ramparts and giving direct access to the beach.

Back from swimming, the happy holidaymakers take the outdoor shower clad with a huge sandblasted glass door.

In the evening, the resin underface of the mobile roof, whether closed or open, illuminates its users.

The topless house makes us go from «Genius Loci» to «Genius Lucky».