PRIVATE HOME
VILLA SASHA
Program: A 3 bedrooms villa with swimming pool
Mission: General design + Visa
Location: Corossol, St Barthelemy
Status: Delivered in 2016
Budget: 1 300 000€
Size: 141,3 m2
A contemporary family carbet. If the traditional carbet is the communal tent, the roof that houses the community, this house is meant to be the family carbet, the ceiling that brings the family together. Like the carbet, it opens up on each orientation to offer exterior extensions on each level, giving a feeling of freedom, space and proximity to the surrounding nature, the perfect setting for this villa. Villa Sasha is above all a family home, it answers a simple goal: to live comfortably and in a convivial way.
It is composed of 3 concrete structures with a large roof overhang with double height on the outside living room. It functions as a real passive system of natural air conditioning. The concrete structures act as a stabilizer that captures, filters and regulates the natural ventilation and also allows to create air drafts, distributing fresh air throughout the house. The roof first of all meets the essential needs and provides the necessary shade and shelter from the rain. But it also creates a common covered space: “between the inside and the outside”. Beneath this roof structure, a key piece of engineering and an element of identity and culture of the project is articulated, all of the life of the house and as well the distribution of each one of the spaces. The interplay of structures creates a perspective between levels and conviviality around the central outdoor living room, the keystone of the life of this house.
Finally, the double height allows, via convective ventilation, to suck fresh air from the swimming pool into the living spaces by evacuating the hot air in the upper part, there again to generate comfort and a microclimate without energy but with common sense.
PRIVATE HOME
VILLA SASHA
Program: A 3 bedrooms villa with swimming pool
Mission: General design + Visa
Location: Corossol, St Barthelemy
Status: Delivered in 2016
Budget: 1 300 000€
Size: 141,3 m2
A contemporary family carbet. If the traditional carbet is the communal tent, the roof that houses the community, this house is meant to be the family carbet, the ceiling that brings the family together. Like the carbet, it opens up on each orientation to offer exterior extensions on each level, giving a feeling of freedom, space and proximity to the surrounding nature, the perfect setting for this villa. Villa Sasha is above all a family home, it answers a simple goal: to live comfortably and in a convivial way.
It is composed of 3 concrete structures with a large roof overhang with double height on the outside living room. It functions as a real passive system of natural air conditioning. The concrete structures act as a stabilizer that captures, filters and regulates the natural ventilation and also allows to create air drafts, distributing fresh air throughout the house. The roof first of all meets the essential needs and provides the necessary shade and shelter from the rain. But it also creates a common covered space: “between the inside and the outside”. Beneath this roof structure, a key piece of engineering and an element of identity and culture of the project is articulated, all of the life of the house and as well the distribution of each one of the spaces. The interplay of structures creates a perspective between levels and conviviality around the central outdoor living room, the keystone of the life of this house.
Finally, the double height allows, via convective ventilation, to suck fresh air from the swimming pool into the living spaces by evacuating the hot air in the upper part, there again to generate comfort and a microclimate without energy but with common sense.
