A House with a View is a beautiful sea front home located in Sainte-Marie-de-Ré, France, designed in 2020 by Martins Afonso Atelier de Design.

Description
In the house, the living space unveils through views that change with the winds and tides as a living and breathing postcard. The project emerges by catching these moments, where each new architectural fragment prints and dances in its context.
Firmly anchored on the seaside, on a sandhill in the south of L’île de Ré[1], this traditional house opens entirely on the ocean. With a strong setting, the challenge of this renovation was to create a new living space using an aging existing structure with incredible potential.
?When the inside invites itself outside? The owners wanted to refurbish the house to make it more suited to their way of life, more comfortable, and above all, per their tastes. The project was based on a complete renovation of the house?s interior and on a redefinition of the openings in the outside space.
The connection between inside and outside spaces is at the heart of the project. It is one of the initial elements which change how one views the whole inhabited space.
We have considered the indoor facilities to create new identities for these areas and build privileged relationships with the outside.
This work of sequencing is defined and underlined by the implementation of the wood, contrasting with a mineral floor. These materials make up the main thread between d...