100% wooden house France, Montlouis-sur-Loire Building, Château de la Bourdaisière, Architect
100% wooden house, Montlouis-sur-Loire
29 Oct 2020
100% wooden house in Montlouis-sur-Loire
Design: LOCAL and Suphasidh Studio
Location: Château de la Bourdaisière, Montlouis-sur-Loire, France

Photos by Atelier Vincent Hecht
100% WOODEN HOUSE
LOCAL and Suphasidh Studio build a prototype of a 100% wooden house in the park of the Bourdaisière Castle.

The project questions the flexibility and the usage of wood; it aims to modify the traditional codes of the individual housing. The building is a prototype dwelling, which feeds on research, experiments and discoveries made over time. In a perpetual evolution, the house is part of an educative promenade organized in the park of the Bourdaisière Castle (France).
The design process was based on confronting a search for spatial qualities of the house that would change our idea of a living space and an exploration of wooden construction systems.

By wrapping the programs around a central core, we generated a generous and continuous volume. The interior topography gives a hierarchy to the different usage: standing in the kitchen to face the view; seating on the window height in the living room; a slope as a sofa; the room on the higher level to guarantee its privacy while generating a covered terrace below it. Every volumetric move creates a new opportunity.

The project brings together technical solutions that links the origins of c...