Galvani House | Paris | Christian Pottgiesser

This house invented between two adjoining bourgeois Parisian playing upside down with a garden, without cutting a single tree, that house condenses the extraordinary conditions. She is alone, demonstrating that possible, the banal, no one is required, especially not the obstinate and strict Christian Pottgiesser. It proves that the planning regulations in Paris may allow the most unexpected condition that decrypts the imagination, and that analytical work, project and constructive solutions to respond to him.....more

Saint Louis House | Paris, France | Christian Pottgiesser

A few years ago, a nanny Mauritius buys for less than one hundred thousand francs a hovel than thirty m2 at the bottom of the second courtyard of a building on Rue du Buisson Saint Louis. In disrepair, the building seems to hold that standing still stuck on three sides and a half between the adjoining buildings. Having delivered his dream to build a house in one of his employers, he launched the idea in the form of challenges to his architect friend who is. In tough negotiations, not only administrative but also neighbors, will eventually overcome all obstacles. On a field of only 8.80 m wide by 4 in its greatest depth c $ oncepteur book a cell housing 35 m2 with contemporary architecture unexpected. Because of its size, limited by his views vis-à-vis (including sink) and expectations of its hospitable owner, this doll house was forced to ignore all the conventions of traditional individual housing.....more

A House In Yvelines, France | Christian Pottgiesser

The history of this house looks like a long ripening, those that give the wines. In 2004, projecting to grow its owners decide to appeal to Christian Pottgiesser found in a publication.
Like many corporate sponsors, they have specific ideas in mind.
For their four children, they want to add to the home they already live - probably the old orangery of the castle eighteenth century - a high extension and a single block, savvy western boundary of parcel close views of the adjoining property on their garden.
Six years later and a dozen projects proposed, studied, modified the house was completed this summer and the garden is under development.
Result of a patient maieutics, the program took shape through an iterative process of extensive discussions between client and architect required in addition to respect for local constraints: three perimeters of Historic Monuments, the obligation of a gabled roof, conservation of a network of sewage lift bisecting the garden.
Groping in wavering, drawing in new desires, the desire to benefit from common areas for the whole family and private apartments for each of its members was eventually imposed. Hence the final proposal both clear and surprising: a powerful base from which emerge all five small towers erected a totem, one for everyone, including parents and children or to go into details: a ground- floor connected to the small west side of the old building developed in the form of amoeba, the architect recalls with a smile "a soft form>> on about 47 m long and roughly 15 m deep - which envelope the image of a river of rocks, about 8 m high base of three towers, and serves two others just in outlying suburbs.....more