AUM architecture Heads to Lyon, France for the Stunning Chipster Blister House
And it’s even good with energy consumption.
Pierre Minassian and his team of talented architects at AUM architecture have crafted a housing masterpiece in Lyon, France.
Known as the Chipster Blister House, AUM architecture’s latest home was created to serve the needs and wants of a couple with three children. Located on a “sloping site,” the house is composed of white concrete and is billed as a low consumption, energy-efficient building. On the lower tier, the living room, kitchen, laundry room and playroom take up the entirety of space; the upstairs contains all the bedrooms.
Highlighting some of the house’s most unique features, Minassian shares:
The house has at its ends two exceptional cantilevers. The monolithic lines of this resolutely contemporary volume are meant to stretch to the extreme affirming the duality between mass and void, glazed surfaces and concrete sails.
The south façade is composed of an assemblage of elliptical shape of Corian® matte black resin suspended in front of the rooms and made by IMAGE. Not unlike the little Chipsters, whose form is burnt in the collective unconscious, or the African totem jewelry, these forms bring a particular vibration to the almost ghostly perception of the volumes inscribed between projected shadows and surfaces of an emblematic downy black.
This contemporary mashrabiya allows the inside of the house to profit from a maximum visual frame while reducing the penetration of excessive solar light. An intermediate space between the glazing and the suspended curtain appears to the occupants of the premises and a sensation of extra volume is instantly felt. Viewed from the outside, the facade is uniformed, and in the undulating reflections of the hulls we perceive all the tones of a sky framed between vegetal and mineral.
To heat the home in the winter, a built-in dual-flow ventilation aids a geothermal heat pump. For the reduction of solar contributions, a “latticework made of resin shapes” adorns the “main facade” in the property’s southern area.
You can take a look at AUM’s Lyon-based Chipster Blister House above. After peeping, check out this all-in-one parking structure which combines three urban elements to protect cities.
