Maison V is a major renovation project including an annex pavilion with a swimming pool by Olivier Chabaud Architecte, located in the city of Villennes-sur-Seine, France. Additional additions to the residence includes new furnishings and interior design, a gym, and major overhaul to the gardens. The architect respected the origin of the building with a global mission.

Project

The heavy restructuring allowed a reconquest of the existing, to adapt this old building to contemporary lifestyles.  Flow management, light, link to the garden, but also intimate relationship between spaces, as all kitchen / lounge / TV room, organized around the glazed staircase and matching sliding doors.

The annex pavilion houses the gym whose canopy can cover a portion of the heated pool for winter use.

The garden ends with a slight side Seine accommodation, a port terrace shack on false metalling and the pontoon.

Layout
Kitchen, storage, furniture, office, billiards, occasional furniture, consistency of the house is given by the volume management, parts distribution, distilled by the measured punctuation design.

Material

In this typical part of the Anglo-Norman houses, the intervention was punctuated by the careful selection of materials and finishes.

Burgundy stone confronts Indian stone, oak kitchen with tiles ‘underground’ and Zimbaoué black marble, the interior woodwork painted steel meets the bancheur of frames.

The bathrooms, with varied identity, Tadelakt varnish wooden lath set on black concrete tiles. The gym, overlooking the pool gray concrete, is also in smoothed gray concrete.

Mixtures subtly give the residence a contemporary feel, yet distilled in this context classic belonging.

Photos: Courtesy of Olivier Chabaud