Marly House

On a tree-lined street in Marly-le-Roi, a small community very close to Paris where high fences traditionally isolate each house and gardens, there is a house which reaches out to its neighbors creating a feeling of urbanity previously lacking on these area. Since the urban policy does not allow one house to open up to another to achieve the openness effect, the building was moved forward its parcel to open widely onto the street.

  The layout of the ground floor is characterized by the fluidity of its three spaces, which are organized around the central fireplace, which alone endures the entire heating of this passive house. The kitchen and an intimate living room are located on either side of the carved staircase of a single piece of prefabricated steel, while two steps higher a living room crossing opens into a vast terrace with a cantilever on the street. This house blurs the boundaries between private and public, to the benefit of user-friendly rooms opened to the exterior.

The privacy of the inhabitants is maintained in the upper level rooms by high windows, which direct the view skywards. Throughout the house raw materials (steel and concrete) are left exposed creating a sense of authenticity for this 145 sqm solid wood CLT prefabricated house.

Marly House, Marly-le-Roi, France
Program: single family house
Architect: Karawitz
Structural engineering: Ingénierie Bois
Installations: Solares Bauen
Area: 145 sqm