Villa dans les Pyrénées

This project by STU­DIO MHNA trans­forms a stone moun­tain house into a con­tem­po­rary fam­i­ly home, where archi­tec­tur­al her­itage and moder­ni­ty bold­ly inter­act. Both respect­ful and rad­i­cal, the work plays with con­trasts: con­crete exten­sions that assert our time, a slate roof that embraces the land­scape and win­dow frames that are accen­tu­at­ed by raw met­al. The inte­ri­or dis­plays a rich alche­my of mate­ri­als, blend­ing the raw with the sophis­ti­cat­ed with a con­trolled ele­gance of con­trast­ing min­er­al­i­ty (nat­ur­al slate and shim­mer­ing sur­faces), warm con­trasts (burnt wood and gild­ed bronze, sand­blast­ed fir and pol­ished mar­ble) and sen­su­al tex­tures (deep wool, flamed met­al and porcelain).