A House with a View, Sainte-Marie-de-Ré Residence, French Architecture Photos, Residential Building
A House with a View on Sainte-Marie-de-Ré
6 July 2022
Architecture: Martins | Afonso atelier de design
Location: Sainte-Marie-de-Ré, France

Photos: Mickaël Martins Afonso
A House with a View, France
In the A House with a View, the living space unveils through views that change with the winds and tides, like a living and breathing postcard. The project emerges through these captured 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 onto 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 in order to make it more suited to their way of life, more comfortable and, above all, adapted to their tastes. The project was based on a complete renovation of the house?s interior, and on a redefinition of the openings in the exterior space.

The connection between inside and outside spaces forms the heart of the project. It is one of the initial elements that change how one views the whole inhabited space. Indoor facilities were considered to create new identities for these areas, as well as to build privileged relationships with the outside. T...