In Geneva, a 1950s villa stands at the edge of a quiet neighbourhood. Today, pressure mounts to demolish and rebuild higher. This project proposes something else: to keep the house, and transform it gently from within.
The house lifts itself gently from the ground, leaving beneath a level that is neither fully buried nor fully open. The lower floor becomes an atelier, a kitchen, a library, workspaces facing the garden at eye level.
Windows sit at soil level. From inside to outside, roots, passing feet, a thin line where earth meets the wall. A limit that does not close, but frames. The garden is felt before it is seen.
At ground floor, six private rooms, each with access to bathrooms along the central band. Two spiral stairs connect the floors. The house is a choreography. Those who live here are also its actors, apprentices, young workers, passing through a moment of formation, between learning and doing, between a room of one’s own and a shared threshold.