AUREOLE / NOBÉL

AUREOLE across its pool and garden, the long elevation of stone and glass

Architecture

In progress

Scope: Architecture + Interiorsthe building and its rooms, drawn as one
Status: In progress

AUREOLE is set into a wooded slope and built of stone: fluted volumes that stand apart at the entrance and gather into a long elevation of glass on the garden side. Terraces step down to an infinity pool and the lawn below it. Inside, one room holds living, dining and kitchen together, under a ceiling of gilded leaves, with a chimney of veined marble at its centre and the hills at every pane.

Grounds / Approach

From above, the house reads as terraces and water held in the trees. The arrival is between stone: fluted volumes, a deep canopy over the drive, olive trees standing in the court.

The house from above, terraces and pools stepping down the slope

Entrance court between fluted stone volumes

Stone canopy over the drive, an olive tree beneath it

Dark screen wall and an olive tree at the court

Passage between the stone volumes, a glazed bridge above

The house in its trees, seen from the air

Terraces / Water

On the garden side the elevation opens. Terraces are stacked over the pool, the pool runs the length of the house, and steps rise from the lawn to a stone portico.

Infinity pool running along the terraces

Living / Dining / Kitchen

The principal floor is one room. Seating, a long table and the kitchen share the glass and the view, and a drift of gilded leaves across the ceiling ties them together.

Living room before a stone chimney, the hills through the glass

Living room beneath a ceiling of gilded leaves

Corner seating at the glass, the hills beyond

Kitchen island in veined marble with stools

Material Register

Veined marble is used as a mass rather than a facing: the chimney, the island, the fire set into the stone. Brass binds the edges and the leaves overhead are gilded by hand.

Veined marble chimney and the fire within it

Gilded leaves drifting across the ceiling