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Dall Ava Villa
Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Saint-Cloud, France
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Name of work in English
Dall Ava Villa
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Name of work in original language
Villa Dall Ava
Prize year
EUmies Awards 1992
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Work Location
Saint-Cloud, France
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Studio
Office for Metropolitan Architecture
EUmies Awards 1992 Shortlisted
Program
Single house
Completion
1991
The villa is situated on a hill which slopes steeply toward the Seine, the Bois de Boulogn, and the city of Paris, in the residential area Saint Cloud &a neighborhood characterized by 19th century houses in a classical 'Montel' landscape. The clients wanted a glass house with a swimming pool on the roof and two separate 'apartments' & one for the parents, the other for the daughter. They also wanted a panoramic view &from the swimming pool of the surrounding landscape and the city of Paris. The site is like a big room, with a boundary made of greenery, garden walls and slopes. It is composed of three parts: a sloping garden, the main volume of the villa, and the street level garage with access in a cavity. The house is conceived as a glass pavilion containing living and dining areas, with two hovering, perpendicular apartments shifted in opposite swimming pool which rest on the concrete structure encased by the glass pavilion.