PRIVATE HOUSE
PROJECT 555
Program: Creation of a 4 bedrooms villa with pool
Mission: Complete mission – representative of the project management group
Conception: Isay Weinfeld with Bruneau Ghezzi Architectes
Landscape architect: Phusis St Barth
Location: Petite Anse, St Barthélemy
Status: Building site in progress – Delivery 2024
Budget: 7M€
Size: 284,52 m2
This project is a private residence with four bedrooms, swimming pool, and outbuildings. the project was conceived first and foremost to be integrated into the magnificent landscape that surrounds it. This allowed for the creation of public parking and better access to the beach below the building site. A thoughtful and discrete project that embraces the philosophy “to live happily, live hidden.” Access is via a concealed cave whose only entrance is visible and leads to a troglodyte garage. 70% of the construction is below ground and articulates along a vertical axis that serves the bedrooms and main level as if in a cave. The principal living space, covered by a large four-sided roof, is implanted on the highest part of the land, leaving room on the lower part for a combination of landscaping and uncultivated nature.
POUR VIVRE HEUREUX, VIVONS CACHÉS.
PRIVATE HOUSE
PROJECT 555
Program: Creation of a 4 bedrooms villa with pool
Mission: Complete mission – representative of the project management group
Conception: Isay Weinfeld with Bruneau Ghezzi Architectes
Landscape architect: Phusis St Barth
Location: Petite Anse, St Barthélemy
Status: Building site in progress – Delivery 2024
Budget: 7M€
Size: 284,52 m2
This project is a private residence with four bedrooms, swimming pool, and outbuildings. the project was conceived first and foremost to be integrated into the magnificent landscape that surrounds it. This allowed for the creation of public parking and better access to the beach below the building site. A thoughtful and discrete project that embraces the philosophy “to live happily, live hidden.” Access is via a concealed cave whose only entrance is visible and leads to a troglodyte garage. 70% of the construction is below ground and articulates along a vertical axis that serves the bedrooms and main level as if in a cave. The principal living space, covered by a large four-sided roof, is implanted on the highest part of the land, leaving room on the lower part for a combination of landscaping and uncultivated nature.
POUR VIVRE HEUREUX, VIVONS CACHÉS.
Thanks to the synergy and willingness to work together on behalf of the various parties (Collectivity, owner, architects, construction companies), this project also included major improvements to the accessibility, safety, durability, and integration into the landscape, of the beach at La Petite Anse.
This work comprised the structural reinforcement of the access road, which had been weakened by hurricane Irma, the addition of parking spots, a place to turn around, and better integration into the landscape with the planting of new vegetation. The project was supervised by the Territorial Environmental Agency.
All of these improvements were made possible by the donation of land by the owner and the necessary investment by the Collectivity. It is an example of a successful collaboration between a private individual and the various services of the Collectivity, in order to find solutions to the following problems :
• Safe access and security for beach-goers
• Reinforcement of the infrastructure
• Integration and preservation of the landscape
• Climatic comfort
• Management of run-off water
LANDSCAPE PLAN
To preserve the landscape and a successfully integrate, the project conserve and accented the elements already present on the site.
Most notably, this includes the conservation and reconstitution of the traditional dry-stone walls and the creation of rock sustaining walls using elements from the site, as well as the preservation and plantation of vegetation endemic to the island.
LANDSCAPE PLAN
To preserve the landscape and a successfully integrate, the project conserve and accented the elements already present on the site. Most notably, this includes the conservation and reconstitution of the traditional dry-stone walls and the creation of rock sustaining walls using elements from the site, as well as the preservation and plantation of vegetation endemic to the island.
