Research project
Research — Adaptive housing — 2023
Inhabited Edge
Location
Haute-Savoie, France
Area
280 m²
The Concept
A forest edge is never a straight line: it advances, retreats, lets the brambles shelter the young shoots before the oak takes over. This project explores housing built on that model, designed to evolve with its inhabitants and natural cycles. The building unfolds like an organism that grows through successive additions, never breaking its dialogue with the surrounding forest.
What this project explores
- Adaptive and modular architecture
- Local bio-sourced materials: wood, earth, hemp
- Building-forest interface as a transitional space
Developed as part of a training programme in architecture
"To inhabit the edge is to accept that architecture has no clear boundary. It begins where the undergrowth ends."
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