A sea-blue storage unit helps arrange living spaces inside this family home in Corseaux, Switzerland, which has been overhauled by Bureau Brisson Architectes.
Situated close to the shore of Lake Geneva, the 1920s home has been overhauled by Bureau Brisson Architectes to feature a much simpler floor plan.

The house was erected during the same decade as Le Corbusier's Villa Le Lac ? a modernist concrete holiday home that the renowned Swiss-French architect created nearby on Lake Geneva for his parents ? and similarly boasts an alternative architectural style.
"From the exterior, the house is a hybrid. It is a kind of mix between a chalet with its large roof, its expressive eaves and a rare example of timber-framed construction with a rustic bedrock," Alan Hasoo, partner at the practice, told Dezeen.
"[The owners] had a preliminary experience with other architects, but were not completely satisfied with it ? their programmatic brief was therefore pretty clear when we met them," said Hasoo.
"But they had a more open mind about what was to happen on the ground floor. They asked us to rethink the relation between the existing kitchen, dining room and living room," he continued.

Partition walls have been knocked through on the formerly fragmented ground level to form one largely open-plan living space, divided by a floor-to-ceiling storage unit that extends from one side of the home to the other.
It comprises gold-handled cupboards where inhabitant...