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Students in their 2nd year of the Bachelor Space Design course have converted an old swimming pool shelter into a house!
The students were given all kinds of requests, such as transforming a swimming pool shelter into a detached house. Marie-Caroline Foulquier-Gazagnes, a teacher in the Space Design section and an architect by profession, actually dealt with this request in her architectural practice.
It was an unusual subject that gave the 2nd year Bachelor Space Design students an opportunity to exercise their creativity, because, in addition to the existing building itself, the project is located on Mont Saint-Clair in Sète, offering a unique view of the Mediterranean Sea and an abundance of vegetation.
If we have in mind the image of a conventional pool enclosure housing a pump and other accessories used to clean the pool, it should be realised that this is much more akin to a small house with a surface area of 80m2 than a simple storage space.
SUBJECT OF THE EXERCISE
Following the division of a plot of land, transform and convert an 80m2 swimming pool shelter into a T4 dwelling house.
EXERCISE INSTRUCTIONS
- To convert an 80m2 swimming pool shelter into a T4 dwelling,
- Possibility of adding a small extension,
- Keep only the load-bearing walls for the new building,
- Provide a swimming pool,
- Develop the sloping plot and make the most of the Mediterranean vegetation and the various tree species.
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVE
Make the most of everything. This is the expression that the students put into practice. In fact, in the course of their professional careers, they won’t just have perfectly arranged flats to renovate or houses to design on a flat surface. On the contrary, they will have to renovate old buildings based on what already exists and deal with specific constraints, as in this case with the sloping terrain.
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