Portfolio de Myriam Rodrigue 2018

The Promenade - The House
On the Promenade, we can find a building following the topography containing a public wine tasting room, a house for
the workers of the winery and the house of the farmer. Its 3 levels can be explained by the necessity to have 3 distinct
levels of privacy for each of the 3 functions found in the building. By putting them altogether, they can all have a link to
the promenade, but also with the other people using the building, that’s why it is possible to go from one level to the
other by crossing the inconspicuous staircases of the terraces. By being places behind low stonewalls, the stairs are
barely noticeable to keep the users hidden from the eyes of the passers. Each parts of the building have a south
(facing the promenade) and north terrace. In the house, these terraces end up in a center common space containing
the living room, the dining room and the kitchen, where it is possible to sit next to the counter, taste wine and stare at
the owner wine collection exposed on the walls of the house. The presence of two terraces at each end of the central
space of the house brings the outside inside the house. But this immersion in the landscape is even more enhanced
by the presence of glass on the upper part of the walls. It allows us to feel the topography of the mountain where the
building is situated. This union of the exterior and the interior was emphasized through the use of
natural materials like wood inside and by pursuing this materiality outside.
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