Casa Alferez is a project, realised by Ludwig Godefroy, responding to the idea of a cabin in the wood and its romantic feeling of a protective shelter in the middle of the forest. The ground floor is almost blind, meanwhile the windows are placed on a very high level where you cannot reach them from the outside, opening views toward the sky and the pine trees on the inside.
I want the house to look like a cube which would have crashed on the floor, among the trees.
Ludwig Godefroy
The structural project has a very compact footprint expressing a contradiction of a cabin suspended on top of the natural topography of its land. The rooftop is the morning area, whilst the natural ground floor is for the afternoon. The configuration of the house has been developed in half levels organised around a double height with light entering everywhere from the top, through those very high windows and skylights in the ceiling.
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Rory Gardiner
