HJ House

Living between two forests, one spread out above on the hills stretching towards the sunset, the other covering the valley, we tried to open up the space as much as possible. Towards the hillside, the land is not at all demarcated, the forest being a permeable boundary and an invitation.
The solution proposes a box open to the landscape in which interior activities are pushed out, accommodated in open spaces around the house. In order to reduce the volume, the open space is doubled by one buried in the ground, the connection being made by a staircase that climbs towards the light.
The open ends of this box are two screens cut out to let in natural light and open up views of the landscape. These transparent ends are complemented by two covered terraces that are meant to screen activities in the immediate vicinity of the house and orient views, like a frame. The fire place, the vegetable garden, the bench in the access space, the garden, the whole yard invites you to inhabit it.

Nestled among the woods, the house becomes more like a bridge that connects the landscape and invites you to live both inside the protected interior and in the landscaped courtyard spaces, to admire the scenery, to sit and rest, to watch but also to enter the forest that surrounds you.