Dortoir Familial Ramatuelle Home, Var Building, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Architecture
Dortoir Familial Ramatuelle House
New Southern French Property Development ? design by NADAAA Architects
10 Sep 2018
Dortoir Familial Ramatuelle Property
Design: NADAAA, Architects
Location: Ramatuelle, Var department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, southeastern France.
Dortoir Familial Ramatuelle House
For centuries, the enclosed courtyard has been overlaid on various geographic settings?each time transformed according to the climate, rituals, and construction practices of the place. A vehicle to capture the outdoors within the building, the courtyard is defined by its interiority.

The slipped court provides simultaneous interiority and exteriority?protected and private as well as extroverted and engaged. This house respects strict zoning guidelines, while merging with the landscape, extending natural flora over the roof. Sited within an olive tree grove, Pinus Pinea, and a vineyard, it seeks to leverage the sloping terrain, producing sustainable systems for amplification and cultivation.
The most significant result of this integration of landscape and house is the production of a monumental vaulted threshold to a central courtyard. The vault is a ruled surface that mediates between the geometry of the supporting stair at the northeast corner, the pool, and living areas above.

The main armature of the house appears as a single concrete monolith around two perpendicu...