French architect Odile Decq has completed a five-year renovation project to restore and revive the Maison Bernard, a "bubble house" in the South of France designed by Hungarian architect Antti Lovag (+ slideshow).

The bright red home in Théoule sur Mer was designed by Lovag for his patron, industrialist Pierre Bernard, who provided the resources for the architect to experiment with his ideas about organic architecture ? or "habitology" ? for 20 years.
The house, completed in the 1970s, appears to be made of interconnecting bubbles of space. This design was based on Lovag's observations and responses to the local land and climate conditions.

Rather than creating a structure and filling it with rooms, he decided on the room layout and the rhythm of windows and openings first, creating an iron frame that expanded and evolved until the final design was agreed. It was then covered with a layer of concrete to create the house's bumpy silhouette. "It's a house that was built while being transformed along the way, evolving, and that continues to develop," said Decq, who was invited to carry out the renovation by Bernard's children, who now run the foundation that manages the house.

The architect spent a year and half getting to know the Bernards and the house before making any changes.
"I didn't expect the impact it would have on me because you first arrive from the top then enter little by little and the entire interior circuit for me was lik...