2A Design has recently completed a surprising small and low cost house on a tiny plot, in a rural village next to Rennes (France). 

© 2A Design / Josué Gillet

Architects: 2A Design

Location: 35230 Orgères, France

Collaborator: Bet HAY (thermic ingenior)

Area: 125.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: 2A Design / Josué Gillet

© 2A Design / Josué Gillet

Plan

2A Design has recently completed a surprising small and low cost house on a tiny plot, in a rural village next to Rennes (France). How to fit such a program on a so small parcel of land located 1.50m above the street " How could we reduce the cost and the building period of the project" The budget of this construction is as small as the building plot ! The program is as complex as the configuration of the parcel !

© 2A Design / Josué Gillet

Diagram

In order to give the best response to the client, 2A Design chooses to built this house with shipping containers (B3 Ecodesign concept). The house has been prefabricated in a factory then moved on the site and achieved in approximately three months.  The container dimensions fits exactly with the buildable zone of the plot !The project is sliced in 3 levels. Each level is a 100sqm area. The superpostion of those different sequencies s...