Modernist Loft Building
General atmosphere:As soon as you enter the spacious entrance, the tone is set: calmness, order, light, and serenity. These keywords are implemented throughout the house. Very large, rigorously designed spaces welcome you. Wide accordion windows frame the colors of the garden perfectly. With its flowering meadow, fruit trees, Japanese maples, magnolias, roses, and peonies. At other times, shutters diffuse their delicate shadow and light effects on the white floors and walls. A large, white, and minimalist kitchen opens onto the immense dining room, ready to welcome a large family, a group of friends, or colleagues. Who have already had an aperitif in the large courtyard or on one of the terraces. When the wide accordion windows are fully open, the boundaries between inside and outside are definitively broken, and you can listen to the many bird songs. Yes, because like a Japanese dwelling, this house turns towards its own inner peace and forgets the more turbulent events of the outside world. Everything has been done and staged to achieve this. After the open loft area, a glazed window opens onto a new room with a large integrated wooden library. Then, you pass to the large and high parental bedroom with its indispensable dressing rooms and bathroom nearby. A large room (35 m) could accommodate children who share the space. Fixed or modular partitions could also be installed. And why not combine private and professional life? Spaces with separate entrances (or not) allow you to do so. As for the 2 1/2 room apartment on the first floor, you can use it for your own needs (friends, family, teenagers) or rent it. Aesthetic and sunny aspects:This is a sumptuous modernist and minimalist building with perfectly balanced masculine and feminine aspects.From the cul-de-sac, the building with terraces and its appearance like stacked boxes (painted half gray, half white) presents an enigmatic and austere appearance due to the apparent absence of openings. These have been largely placed southward to offer maximum light and to live sheltered from views. The building integrates perfectly into the neighborhood and presents a discreet appearance when viewed from above.Views:It is possible to see the Alps and the vineyard slopes from both the windows and the garden on the ground floor and from the terrace of the apartment on the first floor. Aesthetic and practical aspects: • The building offers an incomparable practical life. An access road allows the delivery of goods either to the commercial areas or to the dwelling (no stairwell on the ground floor). • The exterior with storage boxes continues inside. A multifunctional central block houses the 8 built-in closets of the entrance hall, the 8 built-in closets of the kitchen, a guest toilet, and a small storage room. This block also contained the staircase to the first floor before the creation of the second apartment and could be reinstalled if needed. Now, a staircase leads both to the apartment on the first floor and to its beautiful wooden terrace with a view. • The sliding shutters offer thermal comfort in all seasons. The wide accordion windows, which are more than 6 meters wide, open completely onto the sunny garden. Surfaces:For fans of Feng Shui, the perfectly flat plot of 1,200 m2 presents a perfect rectangle. It is fully protected from views or intruders by hedges or fences.The apartment on the ground floor has an area of 245 m2 with two terraces totaling 48 m2, an interior courtyard of 50 m2. The commercial or artisanal areas have an area of 56 m2. The apartment on the first floor spans 90 m2 with a terrace of 30 m2. Energy performance:They are remarkable and allow for real savings (CECB with grade B obtained in 2025): • regularly maintained air-water heat pump. Underfloor heating throughout the building. • solar panels for hot water (hot water supply, washing machine supply) • high-performance insulation of the building envelope Construction and renovation dates:Construction: 2009. Main renovations in 2021: creation of an apartment on the first floor and significant renovations on the ground floor (reorganization of spaces, creation of new openings and a bathroom).Presentation brochure: available upon request by phone or emailNote: This description is not contractual.
